chore: changelog for #2871

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+- Fixed --interactive prompts for required vars sometimes appearing in a random
+  order. Prompts now follow the order the vars are declared in the Taskfile.
+  (#2871 by @caproven)
 - Fixed Fish completions not being picked up correctly by installing them to
   Fish's `vendor_completions.d` directory instead of `completions` (#2850, #2859
   by @Legimity).
@@ -16,9 +19,9 @@
   cleaning `..` and `.` components (#2681, #2788 by @mateenanjum).
 - Added `joinEnv` function to join paths based on your oprating system: `;` for
   Windows and `:` elsewhere, and `joinUrl` to join URL paths. Also, added two
-  new special variables: `FILE_PATH_SEPARATOR` which returns `\` on Windows
+  new special variables: `FILE_PATH_SEPARATOR` which returns `\` on Windows and
-  and `/` elsewhere, and `PATH_LIST_SEPARATOR` which returns `;` on Windows and
+  `/` elsewhere, and `PATH_LIST_SEPARATOR` which returns `;` on Windows and `:`
-  `:` elsewhere (#2406, #2408 by @solvingj).
+  elsewhere (#2406, #2408 by @solvingj).
 - Update the shell interpreter with a regression fix (#2812, #2832 by
   @andreynering).
 - Fix potential panic with the shell interpreter (#2810 by @trulede).
@@ -34,13 +37,13 @@
 - Fixed watch mode ignoring SIGHUP signal, causing the watcher to exit instead
   of restarting (#2764, #2642).
 - Fixed a long time bug where the task wouldn't re-run as it should when using
-  `method: timestamp` and the files listed on `generates:` were deleted.
+  `method: timestamp` and the files listed on `generates:` were deleted. This
-  This makes `method: timestamp` behaves the same as `method: checksum`
+  makes `method: timestamp` behaves the same as `method: checksum` (#1230, #2716
-  (#1230, #2716 by @drichardson).
+  by @drichardson).
 
 ## v3.49.1 - 2026-03-08
 
-* Reverted #2632 for now, which caused some regressions. That change will be
+- Reverted #2632 for now, which caused some regressions. That change will be
   reworked (#2720, #2722, #2723).
 
 ## v3.49.0 - 2026-03-07

requires.go

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ package task
 import (
 	"slices"
 
+	"github.com/elliotchance/orderedmap/v3"
+
 	"github.com/go-task/task/v3/errors"
 	"github.com/go-task/task/v3/internal/input"
 	"github.com/go-task/task/v3/internal/term"
@@ -32,7 +34,7 @@ func (e *Executor) promptDepsVars(calls []*Call) error {
 
 	// Collect all missing vars from the dependency tree
 	visited := make(map[string]bool)
-	varsMap := make(map[string]*ast.VarsWithValidation)
+	varsMap := orderedmap.NewOrderedMap[string, *ast.VarsWithValidation]()
 
 	var collect func(call *Call) error
 	collect = func(call *Call) error {
@@ -42,8 +44,8 @@ func (e *Executor) promptDepsVars(calls []*Call) error {
 		}
 
 		for _, v := range getMissingRequiredVars(compiledTask) {
-			if _, exists := varsMap[v.Name]; !exists {
+			if !varsMap.Has(v.Name) {
-				varsMap[v.Name] = v
+				varsMap.Set(v.Name, v)
 			}
 		}
 
@@ -73,14 +75,14 @@ func (e *Executor) promptDepsVars(calls []*Call) error {
 		}
 	}
 
-	if len(varsMap) == 0 {
+	if varsMap.Len() == 0 {
 		return nil
 	}
 
 	prompter := e.newPrompter()
 	e.promptedVars = ast.NewVars()
 
-	for _, v := range varsMap {
+	for v := range varsMap.Values() {
 		value, err := prompter.Prompt(v.Name, getEnumValues(v.Enum))
 		if err != nil {
 			if errors.Is(err, input.ErrCancelled) {