Configurable JUSTFILE_NAMES?

[orlp]

I'd like to enable the workflow where I have a .localjustfile in project directories to store commands for me personally, not intended to be committed to the repository. Simply using .justfile is not sufficient if the project itself uses just, as just will give an error if both .justfile and justfile exist, stating multiple candidates have been found (which makes sense).

Just has the -f, --justfile argument to specify the exact justfile to load, but this does not do the automatic "scan upwards searching for <filename>" behavior of just that nicely lets you run commands from anywhere in the project.

Would you be open to add an argument similar to --justfile, but which instead changes the name just searches for, rather than specifying an exact path?

Or alternatively (but less flexibly) an option --local-justfile which makes just look for localjustfile or .localjustfile.

[woutervh]

You can do an optional import in the main justfile:

import? '.localljustfile'

Personally I would like to avoid hardcoded filenames, and support all *.justfile in one or more directories via wildcard-support
see #1885

import? '.just/*.justfile'
import? '~/.just/*.justfile'

[orlp]

@woutervh That still requires a 'main justfile' to exist and accommodate this workflow. The goal is to have a workflow which is entirely local and does not depend on or influence the project it lives in in any way.

[woutervh]

have you seen this:
https://just.systems/man/en/global-and-user-justfiles.html

just --global-justfile

[orlp]

Yes, I don't want a global justfile, I want something local (so not committed into git), on a per-project basis.

[casey]

Seems reasonable to me! Implemented in #3234 with a new --justfile-name option, which can be used to supply any number of justfile names, which are checked in order. It can also be set with the JUST_JUSTFILE_NAME environment variable. If --justfile-name is used with --init, it sets the name of the justfile that's created to the first argument.

[orlp]

@casey Thanks, I think that does exactly what I want, I will check it out.