holcommon's empty .env made the loader evaluate one blank line, which
tripped set -u. Verified afterwards on holcommon's real host stack: the CLI
and the make engine resolve the same five files and render a byte-identical
241-line compose config.
A stack is a directory of compose files; the current directory is a stack when
it holds one. The same command works for a project, a catalogue stack, a group
and a host singleton, and stacks sharing a project are now a single compose
call.
Two traps of the make engine are closed on the way: an unknown command is an
error instead of a silent success, and a group is only expanded when its name
is lowercase, so an environment variable can no longer be mistaken for one.
That guard spells out its character class because a-z matches uppercase too
under a dictionary collation.
Replaces the 500-character stack_path expression of
make/apps/def.docker.mk:159 and its leaked $(stackz) loop variable with
three readable functions, covered by 20 assertions.
Yann Autissier