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| author | Greg Becker <becker33@llnl.gov> | 2021-03-21 05:14:13 -0500 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-03-21 10:14:13 +0000 |
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Document cli syntax for environment scopes (#20344)
Co-authored-by: Adam J. Stewart <ajstewart426@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/environments.rst b/lib/spack/docs/environments.rst index 064cfad336..1a52ac8328 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/environments.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/environments.rst @@ -399,6 +399,12 @@ There are two ways to include configuration information in a Spack Environment: #. Included in the ``spack.yaml`` file from another file. +Many Spack commands also affect configuration information in files +automatically. Those commands take a ``--scope`` argument, and the +environment can be specified by ``env:NAME`` (to affect environment +``foo``, set ``--scope env:foo``). These commands will automatically +manipulate configuration inline in the ``spack.yaml`` file. + """"""""""""""""""""" Inline configurations """"""""""""""""""""" |