grunt-newer: Running 'grunt newer:jshint' causes the full jshint task to run

I setup my jshint configuration as so:

jshint: {
   src: ['<%= jsPath %>/*.js', '<%= jsPath %>/app/**/*.js', '<%= jsPath %>/nls/**/*.js'],
    options: {
        'browser': true,
                'undef': true
    }
}

Then I tried to run grunt newer:jshint and got the following output:

Running "newer:jshint" (newer) task

Running "newer:jshint:src" (newer) task

Running "jshint:src" (jshint) task
>> 111 files lint free.

Running "newer-postrun:jshint:src:1:node_modules/grunt-newer/.cache" (newer-postrun) task

Done, without errors.

I have ran it a number of times and the same output occurs, I thought it would only lint files that changed after the first run?

About this issue

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State: open
Created 10 years ago
Reactions: 4
Comments: 17 (3 by maintainers)

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I found grunt-newer worked if I did

        // JSHint checking of the JS app files
        jshint :
        {
            all : {
                files : ['Gruntfile.js', 'media/js/app/**/*.js'],
            },
            options : {
                jshintrc : '.jshintrc'
            }
        },

but not for

        // JSHint checking of the JS app files
        jshint :
        {
            all : ['Gruntfile.js', 'media/js/app/**/*.js'],
            options : {
                jshintrc : '.jshintrc'
            }
        },

It seems to only understand one syntax for files but grunt supports multiple ways of specifying.

rjmackay on Jul 7, 2014

Issue opened since 2014. Any news?

Darksoulsong on Oct 19, 2016