added force flag to cli

src/rail/cli/pipe_commands.py

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ def inspect_command(config_file: str) -> int:
 @pipe_cli.command(name="build")
 @pipe_options.config_file()
 @pipe_options.flavor()
+@pipe_options.force()
 def build_command(config_file: str, **kwargs: Any) -> int:
     """Build the ceci pipeline configuration files"""
     project = RailProject.load_config(config_file)

src/rail/cli/pipe_options.py

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 __all__: list[str] = [
     "RunMode",
     "config_path",
+    "force",
     "flavor",
     "input_dir",
     "input_file",
@@ -54,6 +55,12 @@ class RunMode(enum.Enum):
     type=click.Path(),
 )
 
+force = PartialOption(
+    "--force",
+    help="Overwrite existing ceci configuration files",
+    is_flag=True,
+)
+
 flavor = PartialOption(
     "--flavor",
     help="Pipeline configuraiton flavor",

src/rail/cli/pipe_scripts.py

@@ -742,6 +742,8 @@ def subsample_data(
 def build_pipelines(
     project: RailProject,
     flavor: str='baseline',
+    *,
+    force: bool=False,
 ) -> int:
     """Build ceci pipeline configuraiton files for this project
 
@@ -753,6 +755,9 @@ def build_pipelines(
     flavor: str
         Which analysis flavor to draw from
 
+    force: bool
+        Force overwriting of existing pipeline files
+
     Returns
     -------
     returncode: int
@@ -771,9 +776,11 @@ def build_pipelines(
             continue
         output_yaml = project.get_path('pipeline_path', pipeline=pipeline_name, flavor=flavor)
         if os.path.exists(output_yaml):
-            print(f"Skipping existing pipeline {output_yaml}")
-            continue
-
+            if force:
+                print(f"Overwriting existing pipeline {output_yaml}")
+            else:
+                print(f"Skipping existing pipeline {output_yaml}")
+                continue
         pipe_out_dir = os.path.dirname(output_yaml)
 
         try: