id,node_id,number,title,user,state,locked,assignee,milestone,comments,created_at,updated_at,closed_at,author_association,pull_request,body,repo,type,active_lock_reason,performed_via_github_app,reactions,draft,state_reason 1870345352,PR_kwDOBm6k_c5Y90K9,2161,"-s/--setting x y gets merged into datasette.yml, refs #2143, #2156",9599,closed,0,,,1,2023-08-28T19:30:42Z,2023-08-28T20:06:15Z,2023-08-28T20:06:14Z,OWNER,simonw/datasette/pulls/2161,"This change updates the `-s/--setting` option to `datasette serve` to allow it to be used to set arbitrarily complex nested settings in a way that is compatible with the new `-c datasette.yml` work happening in: - #2143 It will enable things like this: ``` datasette data.db --setting plugins.datasette-ripgrep.path ""/home/simon/code"" ``` For the moment though it just affects [settings](https://docs.datasette.io/en/1.0a4/settings.html) - so you can do this: ``` datasette data.db --setting settings.sql_time_limit_ms 3500 ``` I've also implemented a backwards compatibility mechanism, so if you use it this way (the old way): ``` datasette data.db --setting sql_time_limit_ms 3500 ``` It will notice that the setting you passed is one of Datasette's core settings, and will treat that as if you said `settings.sql_time_limit_ms` instead. ---- :books: Documentation preview :books:: https://datasette--2161.org.readthedocs.build/en/2161/ ",107914493,pull,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/2161/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",0,