Is there an easy way to change version during development?

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Hi !

I’m developping a Discourse plugin for internal purposes, and also try to contribute to the core.
The stable version of the plugin uses a stable version of discourse, so I have to constantly switch the code base:

  • use the main branch when contributing to the core
  • use the version used in our production env when patching bugs for the plugin
  • use the latest version when adding features to the plugin

Every time, I have to destroy the dev container (d/shutdown_dev), delete data and tmp, checkout the right Discourse version, then rebuild and relaunch the container (d/boot_dev --init), configure the first user, then apply our configuration (via a kind of automated restore script), potentially many times a day.

Is there a way to make this less painful ?

Ideally, i’d like to :

  • be able to configure the dev container not to start automatically
  • be able to have many dev containers that I can start/stop whenever I want.

d/boot_dev --help displays the --env/--env-files arguments but I could not find anything about what I can configure with it

Do you have the same kind of issues ? How do you manage to solve it ?