bustOnly Option

[58bits]

Not sure if you'd be interested in this - but I've just implemented a 'bustOnly' option - which updates the reference URLs with the hash of the assets, but does NOT rename the actual files. This works in conjunction with the following server rewrite rules:

#Apache
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteRule ^(.+)\.([0-9a-f]{16})\.(js|css|png|jpg|gif)$ $1.$3 [L]

#Nginx
rewrite '^/(.+)\.([0-9a-f]{16})\.(js|css|png|jpg|gif)$' /$1.$3 last;

The updated repo is here... https://github.com/58bits/grunt-cache-bust

I could submit a pull request if you like the idea.

[benhoIIand]

There is already an option to turn the file renaming off - https://github.com/hollandben/grunt-cache-bust/blob/master/tasks/cachebust.js#L32. If you set that to false, it will add the hash as a query string parameter. Is that not what you're looking for?