List Values Are Unindented

[FelicianoTech]

I can't tell if this is expected, or a bug. Let's say I have the following Yaml file:

title: "My Book"
tags:
  - "adventure"
  - "novel"

and I run the following command: `yaml write -i mybooks.yml author "J.K. Rowling"

The updated Yaml file now looks like:

title: My Book
tags:
- adventure
- novel
author: J.K. Rowling

This GitHub Issue is due to the fact that the 'tags' list has lost its indention. That didn't look like valid Yaml to me so I ran it through http://www.yamllint.com/. While the Yaml did validate, the tags list was "corrected" to the indention I had it previously. So is this a bug?

Also, as you can see, the quotes around the strings are gone. I can see from this issue that it's because of the parser so I guess we can't do anything about it. Sucks though.

[varac]

Hej, any updates on this ? This behaviour is indeed not great. Yaml lists should be indented although technically they don't have to. I saw the referenced PR #43 got closed, not merged.

[mikefarah]

The latest release https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/releases/tag/3.1.0 has a indent flag, if this is set to 4 or greater then the lists will be indented - where as an indent of 2 is not.

Not sure why this is the case - this is what the underlying yaml parser does...

[ringerc]

An unrelated yq tool https://kislyuk.github.io/yq/ has the --indentless-lists option. This would be handy to have when working with 4-space indented yaml without list indents to minimise diffs.

Not a biggie as it's possible to use a yaml pretty-printer on it after.