Partial Static Sync

[spf13]

Today Hugo synchronizes the entire static directory each time a file change is detected. While it only copies the changed file(s), it still goes through the process of evaluating all files on both sides to determine which file needs to be synced. This isn't necessary as we already know what file changed. We should just sync that file.

[anthonyfok]

Hello @ffrizzo,

Thank you for your contribution, @ffrizzo! But I think I encountered a bug in your current implementation in #1671: the static directory in the theme is not synchronized. It detects that I changed the style.css (which is inside the theme's static/ directory), but it is probably trying to copy it from the wrong place.

[ffrizzo]

Hello @anthonyfok ,

I'll take a look on that and I'll submit a new pull request with the fix.

[Skrylar]

On my box, it actually copies a bit more than just the changed file. Every single file is written to the output directory for every single run of hugo, with the exception of those in the static files directory.

[spf13]

@Skrylar can you provide more information about that? Can you paste the output running with --verbose?

[Skrylar]

@spf13

INFO: 2016/02/21 00:08:56 hugo.go:439: Using config file: c:\Dev\Hugotest\config.toml
WARN: 2016/02/21 00:08:56 hugo.go:522: Unable to find Theme Static Directory:
INFO: 2016/02/21 00:08:56 hugo.go:542: c:\Dev\Hugotest\static\ is the only static directory available to sync from
INFO: 2016/02/21 00:08:56 hugo.go:580: syncing static files to c:\Dev\Hugotest\public\
INFO: 2016/02/21 00:08:56 site.go:1275: found taxonomies: map[string]string{"tag":"tags", "category":"categories"}
WARN: 2016/02/21 00:08:56 site.go:1995: Unable to locate layout for 404 page: [404.html]
WARN: 2016/02/21 00:08:56 site.go:1971: "404.html" is rendered empty
0 draft content
0 future content
10 pages created
0 non-page files copied
0 paginator pages created
0 tags created
0 categories created
in 31 ms

If I force the cache directory to be somewhere (ex. in the "cache" folder of the same directory), no files are left behind there. I'm not sure if that's intended or a symptom.

[jdevoo]

I just wanted to contribute an issue with the static folder not showing the contributed files from the theme on a Windows machine. My post on the forum here.
When I create the css and img folders manually, the content is correctly added. I thought I would mention this under partial static sync.

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[jdevoo]

@bep I had indicated on the forum it this had been fixed with 0.17 DEV
Forgot to update here.

[bep]

@jdevoo this issue isn't really about your problem.

[bep]

But then again, I'm pretty sure that this "syncing issue" described in the first post also should be fixed now, by what I can read in the code and by testing; we only sync the path matching the change event(s). Can you confirm, @spf13 ?

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