Is it possible to "group" output in CI only?

[xaviergmail]

I am leveraging tasks in CI such that my CI/CD pipelines do nothing much more than just invoking tasks. For readability, I have the following:

output:
  group:
    begin: "::group::{{.TASK}}"
    end: "::endgroup::{{.TASK}}"
    error_only: true

This works great in GitHub Actions, but I don't like that I can't see error outputs in real-time when running these tasks locally.

I've had the idea of appending that yaml to my top level Taskfile at the start of CI jobs but I was wondering if there was an easier way to do it or if it would be feasible to request such a feature.

[andreynering]

Hi @xaviergmail,

You should use command-line flags for that. Task itself does this on our CI, so you can use that as an example:

--output=group --output-group-begin='::group::{{.TASK}}' --output-group-end='::endgroup::' 

task/.github/workflows/test.yml

Line 38 in da4ce5b

run: ./bin/task test --output=group --output-group-begin='::group::{{.TASK}}' --output-group-end='::endgroup::'

[xaviergmail]

Thanks! Is it possible to set these as environment variables?

[vmaerten]

Hello !
This is not possible to set these as environment variables