Regression: cannot provide human-readable site name

[mojodna]

With the previous version of the CLI, I was deploying to a specific site using

netlify deploy -p dist/ -s planet-stac

With the new version of the CLI, I now need to use

netlify deploy --prod --dir dist/ --site 95a54956-1c9b-4548-87bc-<redacted>

Is it possible to use the human-readable name when deploying sites using the new CLI?

[bcomnes]

Possibly. Is this for a more readable CI script? When used interactively, the ideas is once you are logged in, and your local folder is linked to a site, netlify deploy is useful without any flags.

[bcomnes]

I looked into this some more, and this should be easier than I expected. We can add this back.

[mojodna]

It's for a repo that's deployed to multiple sites to visualize different datasets: https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-browser/blob/master/package.json#L12-L14

It's not linked to a single site as a result, and having readable names makes it easier for new people to understand/use.

Thanks!!

[MichalBryxi]

Also note that it's currently confusing in the documentation, because in various places (and possibly blog posts) it reads:

site (option) - A site ID to deploy to

But on the netlify web: https://app.netlify.com/sites/{myapp}/settings/general the closest to site id I can find is site name, which worked till now. Second best guess is API ID, which is actually correct.

And when you provide wrong ID netlify-cli just spits out:

 netlify deploy
 ›   Error: Not Found

Without any possibility to figure out what's wrong. At least I haven't found --verbose or --debug flag for it.