how to disable or get the commands for the docker-compose.yml formatter

[Daniel Tucker (dantuck)]

Can someone point me to where the docker-compose.yml formatter is? I either need to be able to disable it or get the commands ran so we can add it into a pre-commit and/or CI check flow.

Thanks in advance!

[Brandon Waterloo [MSFT] (bwateratmsft)]

Converting this to a discussion as that seems to fit better.

The formatter is in the Compose language service. You can disable it with this setting, either in your .vscode/settings.json or in user settings:

    "[dockercompose]": {
        "editor.formatOnSave": false
    }

I'm not aware of any way to use VSCode language servers as a precommit hook or CI check. Ultimately this particular formatter is just parsing it in with the yaml library and rewriting it with a certain number of spaces for indentation; one could create an executable NPM script / package to do the same.

[Daniel Tucker (dantuck)]

Thank you for your time answering this. I think I have a path forward now!

[Brandon Waterloo [MSFT] (bwateratmsft)]

Glad to help!