New files in empty or new directory are not watched

[thebuilder]

I've noticed an issue when creating new files.

I'm using the following watch, to look for all .less files in my src directory.

watch({glob: config.src + '**/*.less', name: 'LESS', emitOnGlob: false}, ['less'])

This works as expected, and new .less files gets detected.
Unless i create a .less file in an existing subdirectory that did not contain any .less files at the watch start. The files will not be detected before i restart the watch.

Is this an issue with globbing in general? If so, any idea of how to work around it?

[floatdrop]

Could you try to add current directory to glob option? Like this: glob: [config.src + '/*.less', config.src + '**/*.less'].

[thebuilder]

Sadly didn't work. Just resulted in any new directories in the src directory triggering the watch. But it has no effect on files created in an existing subdirectory.

[floatdrop]

This issue belongs to gaze unfortunately - shama/gaze#103

[floatdrop]

@thebuilder [email protected] now uses chokidar, that fixes this issue.

[thebuilder]

Awesome!

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Fra: Vsevolod Strukchinskymailto:[email protected]
Sendt: ý21-ý01-ý2015 19:23
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Cc: Daniel Schmidtmailto:[email protected]
Emne: Re: [gulp-watch] New files in empty or new directory are not watched (#56)

@thebuilderhttps://github.com/thebuilder [email protected] now uses chokidar, that fixes this issue.

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[OlivierCuyp]

Still have the issue with empty folder.
Here is my code :

gulp.task('clean:images', function () {
  return del.sync([
    config.img.out + '/**'
  ]);
});

gulp.task('bundle:images', ['clean:images'], function () {
  return gulp.src('assets/img/**/*.*')
    .pipe(gulp.dest('dist/img'));
});

gulp.task('watch:images', ['bundle:images'], function () {
  return gulp.watch('assets/img/**/*.*', ['bundle:images']);
});

Working fine as soon there is a file in assets/img.

[UltCombo]

@OlivierCuyp Are you actually using the gulp-watch package? Looks like you are using gulp's built-in gulp.watch method.