How to alias a sequence of tasks?

Question

I have custom tasks in my SBT (0.12.2) project. Let\'s call them a, b and c. So when I\'m in the interactive mode of SBT I can just type <

Answer 1

I've been looking for the same thing and found this request for an easy way of aliasing and the commit that provides one: addCommandAlias.

In my build.sbt I now have:

addCommandAlias("go", ";container:start;~copy-resources")

As you might guess, writing go in the console will now run the longer command sequence for me.

Answer 2

I've figured it out:

lazy val taskSettings = Seq(
    all <<= c dependsOn (b dependsOn a)
)

Answer 3

another way to achieve this is to define an alias in your .sbtrc file which will be in the root of your project directory.

alias all=;a;b;c

you have an additional option of defining these .sbtrc file in your home directory in which case this alias will be available to all your projects.