Is there any way to define a file scoped variable?

[mythay]

I want to define a variable only can be seen in a Taskfile scope, then the variable can be shared by different task in the single Taskfile, and other Taskfile can also use the same name to refer a different variable. Is there any way to do this?

The initiate is that I have a project that need to build multiple packages, the folder structure looks like:

topdir/Taskfile.yaml
|----package1/Taskfile.yaml
|----package2/Taskfile.yaml

I found if I write the taskfile in the following style:

version: '3'
vars:
  NAME: 'package1'

tasks:
  default: 
    cmds: 
      - echo deploy {{.NAME}}
  build: 
    cmds: 
      - echo build {{.NAME}}

The variable NAME become a global variable, and they override each other if I include these two files in the top level taskfile.

[ameershira-uman]

I ran into this issue a while back. My comment to this is that the behavior is unexpected. The included taskfile behavior should not change implicitly just because its included in another taskfile.

[mythay]

I can understand.
Is there any best practice(or workaround) to implement file scoped vars in current version?

[andreynering]

Sorry, but not currently. This might be fixed in the future, but for now you need different variable names.

[mythay]

Thanks