Provide a way to extend a configuration from another repository (centralized config)

[ssbarnea]

As lots of tools already support the magic _extends key in their config file, cspell would greatly benefit from it. I use the tool in tens of repositories and most of the time I have the same kind of config.

I would be much easier to be able to inherit a config from another github repo or url and use the local one to overlay on it.

Most tools supporting this use a syntax like:

# loads same file path from this parent directory:
_extends: gh_org/gh_repo

# alternative for loads from an URL
_extends: https://.../config.yml

• All the tools based on probot-config support this because it provides it for free.
• Renovate has a similar functionality

PS. I know that there is an existing feature that allows loading of additional config files from disk, but this has no practical use for centralized config.

[Jason3S]

@ssbarnea,

Doesn't import work for you?

import:
  # from a URL
  - https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@cspell/dict-scientific-terms-us/cspell-ext.json
  # from node_modules
  - '@cspell/dict-elisp/cspell-ext.json'
  # relative
  - '../cspell.config.yaml'
dictionaries:
  - scientific-terms-us