# Contexting of include tags?

**URL:** <https://forum.liquibase.org/t/contexting-of-include-tags/3203>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [March 27, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/contexting-of-include-tags/3203 "2015-03-27T20:30:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![BenediktKuett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecb155/32.png) [@BenediktKuett](https://forum.liquibase.org/u/BenediktKuett)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/contexting-of-include-tags/3203/1 "2015-03-27T20:30:00Z")

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Hello,

i did a bit of research in this forum bu did not find this topic yet.

We are thinking about using Liquibase for out database migration.Due to a large amount of tables and as we have seen that it’s a best practice, we separate our changelogs into several samller ones and let them be integrated by a central file.

Now my question is:

Is there a way to use any execution control in the include tag? Like the contexting or labeling of changeSets?

The structure we would like to set up is that there is a central changeLog which includes a bunch (2-5) of other changeLogs which each have like 50-200 changeLog children. And every time the main changelog is supposed to execute only one of the 2-5 branches.

At the moment during development we handle this by commenting in and out, but a function like contexting includes would be really helpful!

Thanks in advance,

Ben

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**Author:** ![un1475849042250r76id](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c4cdca/32.png) [@un1475849042250r76id](https://forum.liquibase.org/u/un1475849042250r76id)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/contexting-of-include-tags/3203/2 "2015-03-27T20:30:00Z")

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I didn’t fully understand what you meant by this however did you find a solution as this thread is a year old with no responses

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**Author:** ![un1454340572882r17id](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a87d85/32.png) [@un1454340572882r17id](https://forum.liquibase.org/u/un1454340572882r17id)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.liquibase.org/t/contexting-of-include-tags/3203/3 "2015-03-27T20:30:00Z")

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Hi,  
I have made a question linked to this one in the forum. I know that in version 3.5.1 it’s supposed to be able to specify the context at changelog level in the include statement but I was trying without success.  
Could someone explain me how it works this new function?

Thanks in advance