I was reading the docs and came across this : Whenever flyctl is run, it will look for a fly.toml file in the current directory and use the application name in that file. This behavior can be overridden by using the -a flag to set the application name, or on some commands (such as deploy) by using …

flyctl launch -a docs out of date?

FrequentFlyer January 27, 2022, 8:01am 2

For info, there was a similar post about the CLI doing such a thing.

I’d guess a bug in flyctl…

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