Added a note about alias in documentation

pull/2486/head
Sushil Kumar 8 years ago
parent 42aa81e7ca
commit 351dfea53b

@ -229,6 +229,38 @@ Managing charts with `requirements.yaml` is a good way to easily keep
charts updated, and also share requirements information throughout a charts updated, and also share requirements information throughout a
team. team.
#### Alias field in requirements.yaml
In addition to the other fields above, each requirements entry may contain
the optional field `alias`.
Adding an alias for a dependency chart would add another copy
of the chart as a new depdendency using alias as name of new dependency.
One can use `alias` in cases where they need multiple copies of same chart
as dependencies all independent of one another.
````
# parentchart/requirements.yaml
dependencies:
- name: subchart
repository: http://localhost:10191
version: 0.1.0
alias:
- one-more-subchart
- another-subchart
````
In the above example we will get 3 depenendencies in all for `parentchart`
```
subchart
one-more-subchart
another-subchart
```
Manual way of achieving this is copy/pasting same chart in
`charts/` directory multiple times with different name.
#### Tags and Condition fields in requirements.yaml #### Tags and Condition fields in requirements.yaml
In addition to the other fields above, each requirements entry may contain In addition to the other fields above, each requirements entry may contain

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