FAQ

doit is too verbose, why don’t you use decorators?

doit is designed to be extensible. A simple dictionary is actually the most flexible representation. It is possible to create different interfaces on top of it. Check this blog post for some examples.

dodo.py file itself should be a file_dep for all tasks

If I edit my dodo.py file and re-run doit, and my tasks are otherwise up-to-date, the modified tasks are not re-run.

While developing your tasks it is recommended to use doit forget after you change your tasks or use doit --always-run.

In case you really want, you will need to explicitly add the dodo.py in file_dep of your tasks manually.

If dodo.py was an implicit file_dep:

• how would you disable it?
• should imported files from your dodo.py also be a file_dep?