Comment 1 for bug 1819974

If you do the other way, having the multiline in the template instead of the overrides, it still doesn't output the correct multiline.

Given the following overrides:

test_overrides:
  cat1: cool
  cat2: notsocool

With the following template:

---
test: |
  This is multiline on yaml
  The newlines should be respected
  but they are not
  is it a bug?

And the following task:

- name: "test multiline merge"
  config_template:
    src: "test.j2"
    dest: "test.yaml"
    config_overrides: "{{ test_overrides }}"
    config_type: yaml
  delegate_to: localhost

Expected:

cat1: cool
cat2: notsocool
test: |
  This is multiline on yaml
  The newlines should be respected
  but they are not
  is it a bug?

But got:

Expected:

cat1: cool
cat2: notsocool
test: |-
  This is multiline on yaml
  The newlines should be respected
  but they are not
  is it a bug?

The subtle difference is that we are adding the "-" to the multiline for some reason which we should not do as it may change what is expected from the output.

Sure this is a minor thing as it only stripes the last line, but something to take into account. We dont want to change the output for no good reason :D