List available recipes as a graph or tree about just

[casey]

Love this idea! I think calling it just --tree would be good, similar to the CLI tree command that prints a directory tree.

[VladimirMarkelov]

Displaying calls like "just c" as a dependency in the tree can be difficult. What to do in a case:

bin := "just" // it can be a conditional here
a:
   echo "a"
    {{bin}} b
b:
  echo "b"

or in this case:

section := if windows { "build-win" } else { "build-lin" }
a:
   just {{section}}
  echo "Done"
build-win:
  ...
build-lin:
  ...

I can think of more complex cases, but even these ones are tricky.

[casey]

Oh sorry, I missed that part. Yeah, I think that displaying dependencies which are called inside recipes is not possible.

[gyreas]

Oh sorry, I missed that part. Yeah, I think that displaying dependencies which are called inside recipes is not possible.

Perhaps we adjust the definition of dependency a bit? To me, lah := "blah" is an assignment statement, which shouldn't be a dependency, right? Otherwise, this idea has flopped since assignments are (almost) always used in recipes.

Can you consider this point too?