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Variable arguments support

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by reviewing Invoke's task invocation and argument-parsing entry points, using the proposed manage +args: example and the existing inv manage -c workaround as requirements. Define how variable arguments should be passed to tasks and what successful execution should look like for the Django manage.py command.

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Description

With something like just I can write

# manage: Executes manage.py command.
manage +args:
    @docker compose run --rm django python ./manage.py {{args}}

Then I will be able to execute the command like this:

just manage makemigrations app

The closest way I found to write it invoke is something like:

inv manage -c 'makemigrations app'

is it true? is it possible to add this feature?

I need it mostly for django. But I can imagine a lot of similar tools.

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