Show HN: Xc – A Markdown Defined Task Runner

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xc is a task runner designed to maximise convenience, and minimise complexity.

Each xc task is defined in simple, human-readable Markdown. Meaning that for people without the xc tool installed there is a clear source of useful commands in the README.md file.

Installation instructions are defined at https://xcfile.dev/getting-started/#installation.

• Markdown defined tasks.
• Editor tools:
  • VSCode (list and run xc tasks)
  • Vim (recommended config for listing and running xc tasks)

Take the tag task in the README.md of the xc repository:

## tag

Deploys a new tag for the repo.

Requires: test

```
export VERSION=`git rev-list --count HEAD`
echo Adding git tag with version v0.0.${VERSION}
git tag v0.0.${VERSION}
git push origin v0.0.${VERSION}
```

The task could be run simply with xc tag, but a side-effect of it being an xc task is that the steps for pushing a tag without the use of xc are clearly documented too.

export VERSION=`git rev-list --count HEAD`
echo Adding git tag with version v0.0.${VERSION}
git tag v0.0.${VERSION}
git push origin v0.0.${VERSION}

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