Included vars not expanded in global vars

[b4nst]

• Task version: 3.2.2
• Operating System: macOS

Example Taskfile showing the issue

Taskfile.yml

# https://taskfile.dev

version: '3'

includes:
  msg: ./include.yml

vars:
  GREETING: '{{.MSG}}'

tasks:
  default:
    cmds:
      - echo "{{.GREETING}}"
      - echo "{{.MSG}}"

include.yml

# https://taskfile.dev

version: '3'

vars:
  MSG: Hello, World!

output

➜  task                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
task: echo ""

task: echo "Hello, World!"
Hello, World!

[weeping-somnambulist]

Due to variable scoping this would not be the desired behavior. That said I think there should be a way to pass data from included task to the calling task, however that would be a feature request that needs an issue on it's own.

@andreynering I believe that this is EXPECTED BEHAVIOR and should be closed.

[andreynering]

Hi @b4nst, thanks for reporting this!

This happens because the variables are interpolated before includes are read, but given your use case, I think it may make sense to try to fix this, specially if more people think this would be useful.