gulp.src with nocase: true doesn't return any file on Windows

[etiktin]

I was trying to copy files from one folder to another and filter out some files in the process (I was moving an old grunt build task to gulp). When I use options.nocase = true no files were returned, but when it was false it did return files. Apparently this only happens on Windows.

Here's a simplified version:

    gulp.src(['**', '!Temp/**', '!*.bat'], {cwd: '../Server/', cwdbase: true, nocase: true})
        .pipe(gulp.dest('Dist/Server'))

This issue goes back months (search for nocase in node-glob). There is a fix for it at: isaacs/node-glob#146
I took the changes that @staticshock did to glob/common.js and merged them and now everything works!

If you encounter the same issue and you are using gulp@3.9.0, you can take the updated common.js from: https://gist.github.com/etiktin/ff222bb73904189a1aa7
Place it in: node_modules\gulp\node_modules\vinyl-fs\node_modules\glob-stream\node_modules\glob

The node-glob maintainer (@isaacs) is taking his time with merging it (I'm not criticizing, he has his reasons). I suggest to consider replacing node-glob with a fork that adds the patch, until it's fixed upstream.

[phated]

Thanks for pointing this out and giving others options to solve it. I don't think we will be swapping the node glob dependency for a fork.