Task•17mo ago

Should the 'generates' folders be automatically excluded from 'sources' evaluaton?

If I have a project structure of:

project:
  - src
  - build
  filea.txt
  fileb.txt

project:
  - src
  - build
  filea.txt
  fileb.txt

In the taskfile, if you have:

sources:
  - ./**/*
generates:
  - ./build/**/*

sources:
  - ./**/*
generates:
  - ./build/**/*

Then the task will re-run each time. Changing sources to be:

sources:
  - ./**/*
  - exclude: ./build/**/*

sources:
  - ./**/*
  - exclude: ./build/**/*

appears to make it detect nothing has changed since the last run.

Based on testing, it would appear that without the

exclude

exclude

the

build

build

directory is being picked up in the

./**/*

./**/*

pattern in

sources

sources

. The actual project has a number more files and directories and adding them all as sources feels (in my ignorance) unnecessary. Are there reasons why the entries of

generates

generates

are not automatically added as

exclude

exclude

entries for

sources

sources

Solution

ok, thanks. It seem like if the build directory is deleted and then recreated then it's thinking that the content has changed except I think the checksums for each file would be the same. I guess there's something different that I'm not realising. I'll close this question off as it's something specific to the project I'm working on. Thanks

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