Can multiple Compass components managed through single yaml file?

[Abhaykumar Patil]

Currently, Compass doesn't support multiple components configured / linked through single yaml file. Is that something Compass team thinking as a future use case?

As there could be many components of similar configurations, it would be cumbersome to create separate folders to configure individual yaml files for that many components.

[Guy Derriman]

We POC'd this yesterday, you can have 2 compass components correlated to 1 repository by adding 2 compass.yml files. The compass.yml files have a componentId so they are smart enough to pick up the context and process changes to the correct compass component. 

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Just read the rest of your Question :)
But this doesnt specifically solve your problem of avoiding processing several similar files

[Chris]

Sorry for bringing up an old question. As I understand, the requirement is to have distinct/separate files, not YAML's definition of "file"/document?