Is this the expected block style behaviour?

[mccarthy-james]

I have some yaml with the following block style:

a:>-
  some text
  goes here

When yq processes it I get:

a:>-
  some text  goes here

Of course, this how it is supposed to be interpreted, but as this is an instruction for the destination application and not yq, I do not yq to modify the yaml in this way. Is this a reasonable expectation or am I using yq in a way it is not designed to be used? Perhaps that could be toggled?

With a:|- there is no change, as expected, but my application requires a:>-.

[mikefarah]

This is the result of the underlying yaml parser, which occasionally mangles white space), however generally this only affects human readability of the yaml file, not processing. TLDR: The two string values should be equivalent (ref https://yaml-multiline.info/)

[mccarthy-james]

Thanks, Mike. This is editing a docker-compose.yml file and it seems that it doesn't matter for processing after all (I thought I had tested and it had). I also switched the block style to to |- and everything worked as expected still! So that might be the better solution. Thanks again.