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You could make a builder to do this for you. It could build your actions in a pre-commit hook or whatever.

Although, I think it is generally an accepted practice to use declarative configuration over imperative configuration? In part, maybe what the article is getting at, maybe?

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YAML is neither declarative nor imperative. It's just a tree (or graph, with references) serialization to text.

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I didn't say anything about YAML? Also, I think the term "declarative configuration" has drifted to mean different things over time depending on where it is used.