Feature Request: Set global CLI option defaults

Hey team, really enjoying using garden so far. I’ve been running into this issue where the default value of fancy for --logger-type does not play nicely with the terminal in my IDE (webstorm), and I’m constantly forgetting to pass the flag to change it to basic, which made me think this may be a useful feature. Apologies if this functionality is available and I somehow missed it, I’ve gone through the docs pretty thoroughly and haven’t seen it mentioned.

What should the user be able to do

Set a default value for global CLI options. I’ve thought of two ways this of implementing this (though I’m not familiar with the internals of the project so I’m sure you’ll have better ideas).

Idea A. Set the default value for a global cli option via the garden config command. Example:

$ garden config logger-type basic
✔ Global default for CLI flag --logger-type set to 'basic'

Idea B: A cli key in the project configuration file. Example:

kind: Project
name: myProject
cli:
    loggerType: basic
...

Why do they want to do this

Like I mentioned above, I have an immediate need for this because remembering to pass the --logger-type=basic flag for every command is quite tedious. Other global options where I could see this being useful is --log-level, --env, and --output.

Priority: Probably pretty low, though I would greatly appreciate it 😃

Thanks! Parker

[10ko]

I also really liked the structure. This could maybe be turned into a feature request template. Maybe your first PR @parkerself22? 😃

If not I will take care of it in the next days. Again thanks for the request.

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