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feature request: make features set only by environment variables _also_ accessible by flags #5353

Open smartb-pair opened 6 years ago

smartb-pair commented 6 years ago

"As a Habitat user, I want to" be able to discover how the hab cli works without being forced to consult the (generally excellent) online docs. Habitat's current CLI behavior is great in the sense that it's self documenting - if I want to know how a particular verb can be used, I can simply type

hab sup <verb>

with no arguments and get helpful output.

Where this model breaks a bit is with configs that are currently set only in environment variables, such as the HAB_NONINTERACTIVE option, which is commonly needed when building various kinds of scripting/automation, but is easy to forget and hard to discover.

Adding a flag like --interactive=<boolean> would be self-documenting and less mysterious. There are probably other configuration options that are currently only handled by env vars that could additionally be controlled via flags.

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bixu commented 4 years ago

I still think this would help in onboarding. I keep getting very negative feedback from folks in the early stages of learning Habitat, mostly because of inconsistent experiences like this or because of surprising behavior on the CLI. We need to find a way to get a little closer the initial Docker flow, or else abandon these user cases and only go after people struggling with hardcore lift-and-shift problems for big legacy (non-cloud-native) apps.

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