Allow option to run recursive including root?

[shirotech]

According to https://pnpm.io/cli/recursive:

pnpm -r, --recursive

Runs a command in every project of a workspace, excluding the root project, when used with the following commands:

• exec
• run
• test
• add

Is there an option or is it possible to run with root as well? Or is that considered an anti-pattern?

Also, not sure why these specific commands have special hard-coded treatments? Is it part of some spec? I would have thought it would just be easier and more generic to have a flag say --no-root or something, and let the users decide if root should be included or not?

[zkochan]

I agree with you. And it used to work consistently in the past. But I was asked to change it: #2769

An option sounds good and I think such issue already exists but I can't find it.

[shirotech]

Hi @zkochan Thanks for the response, I had a look and found a special option in npm. https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v8/commands/npm-link#include-workspace-root I believe using -r, --recursive flags should follow the include-workspace-root option to include root or not.

[shirotech]

Hi @zkochan understand that you are busy, so I have proposed a change #4928 I'm not sure how to go about adding tests, if you can help me do that if needed. Thanks.

[coyotte508]

Would it be possible to add this to the docs here: https://pnpm.io/filtering ?

I'm very thankful the option exists, we have a CI where the root has its own lint script (for the root config files)