Feature request: Add ability to specify a default group for gitman commands about gitman HOT 6 CLOSED

I think I'm more in favor of the following:

groups:
  - name: group1
    default: true
    members:
      - a
      - b
 - name: group2
   members:
    - c

Though I don't recall if yml supports optional parameter format like this.

Should gitman install accept both 'group1' and 'default' as inputs? i.e. gitman install == gitman install default == gitman install group1

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I'm ok with that too. However, by having a separate field to specify the default group, we bypass having to deal with a situation where default: true is set for multiple groups.

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Have a work-in-progress which meets the requirements of this feature request: https://github.com/Erich-McMillan/gitman/tree/feature/236-default-group. Only issue so far is that if an existing gitman.yml does not already have default_group property then a default item is added automatically as default_group: '' which will default back to installing all sources on gitman install.

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I don't really see that as an issue. It makes the new feature explicit, but doesn't change existing behavior. Win-win!

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@brandonaut have a proposed solution to add your feature request in this PR #237. Since I sent you a test exe and these changes met your requirements we are just waiting on feedback from @jacebrowning.

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This functionality is available in this beta release: https://pypi.org/project/gitman/2.2b4/

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