Add mtimeUpdate parameter #253
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This will allow forcing dest file modified time to update without needing to explicitly touch file with another task.
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Any reason for closing without discussion? |
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Hey @MeoMix could you rebase this PR and add documentation for the options under |
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Sure. I'll try and take a look at it this weekend to ensure it's still necessary/useful. Thanks! |
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It took me a lot of time to notice that the mtime was not modified and I wanted to know why the Makefile was running the task multiple times. It is quite sad to see that a PR existed to fix this but was not merged more than 4 years later. |
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Currently, when copying a file from src to dest with grunt-contrib-copy the last modified time of the file is not updated.
It would be nice to have the ability to force updating this value as to play nice with grunt:newer. See: tschaub/grunt-newer#84
This PR introduces a new option to,
mtimeUpdatewhich, if set to true, will force the copied file's mtime to be set to the current time.