Refactoring Workflows
One of the joys of a real templating language (whether ytt or jsonnet) is it gives you a whole host of options for refactoring complex workflows.
To make the process of refactoring easier, you can run the watch command (which is just an alias for check --watch --show-diffs). While refactoring, you should see no changes to the generated workflow, so any changes indicate an error in the refactor, and the diff output should quickly show you what it is.
$ gflows watch
2020/07/10 18:43:56 Watching workflow templates
Watching .gflows/workflows/my-workflow.jsonnet
Watching .github/workflows/my-workflow.yml
Checking my-workflow ... UP TO DATE
For example:
If you install bat then the diff will include syntax highlighting:
