uv sync --activate

[dbrtly]

Sometimes it would be convenient to sync and activate a virtual environment in one command. This has probably been discussed before but I didn't find it. Apologies if so.

[samypr100]

Can you provide an example of the commands you used that didn't behave as expected? Did you try uv sync and it didn't work on your virtual environment?

[dbrtly]

uv sync

Is a thing of beauty. I love it.

I'd like the option to do

uv sync --activate

As an alternative to

uv sync
source .venv/bin/activate || source .venv/Scripts/activate

[samypr100]

Ah, I see. Thanks for the examples. I'd consider this a dupe of #8106

[dbrtly]

Ah. I see.

Do you think a bash alias would work?

Like

alias uv-sync='uv sync && source .venv/bin/activate'

[zanieb]

I guess so?

❯ alias test-example="echo 'hi' && source .venv/bin/activate"
❯ test-example
hi
❯ which python
/Users/zb/workspace/uv/.venv/bin/python
❯ deactivate
❯ test-example
hi
❯ which python
/Users/zb/workspace/uv/.venv/bin/python

Surprised me though tbh.

Anyway, we can't add support for this in uv directly as mentioned in the linked issue.