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Anchor and Alias Operators
Use the alias and anchor operators to read and write yaml aliases and anchors. The explode operator normalises a yaml file (dereference (or expands) aliases and remove anchor names).
yq supports merge aliases (like <<: *blah) however this is no longer in the standard yaml spec (1.2) and so yq will automatically add the !!merge tag to these nodes as it is effectively a custom tag.
NOTE --yaml-fix-merge-anchor-to-spec flag
yq doesn't merge anchors <<: to spec, in some circumstances it incorrectly overrides existing keys when the spec documents not to do that.
To minimise disruption while still fixing the issue, a flag has been added to toggle this behaviour. This will first default to false; and log warnings to users. Then it will default to true (and still allow users to specify false if needed)
See examples of the flag difference below.