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A workflow management tool for numerical models on the NCI computing systems
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Command line argument to disable metadata/UUID generation #446

Open jo-basevi opened 1 week ago

jo-basevi commented 1 week ago

Currently the only way to disable new UUIDs being generated and metadata files being committed, is to disable it in config.yaml, e.g.

metadata:
   enable: false

(Note: If set to False, the experiment name used for archival is either the control directory name or the configured experiment name - so basically how payu worked before UUID/branching changes)

For developing released configurations, it would be useful to easily disable metadata when running payu commands using a command line argument.