fix funky history passing, closes #35

index.js

@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ function File(file) {
   if (!file) file = {};
 
   // record path change
-  this.history = file.path ? [file.path] : [];
+  var history = file.path ? [file.path] : file.history;
+  this.history = history || [];
 
   // TODO: should this be moved to vinyl-fs?
   this.cwd = file.cwd || process.cwd();
@@ -59,21 +60,23 @@ File.prototype.clone = function(opt) {
     opt.contents = opt.contents !== false;
   }
 
-  var file = new File({
-    cwd: this.cwd,
-    base: this.base,
-    stat: (this.stat ? cloneStats(this.stat) : null)
-  });
-  file.history = this.history.slice();
-
   // clone our file contents
+  var contents;
   if (this.isStream()) {
-    file.contents = this.contents.pipe(new Stream.PassThrough());
+    contents = this.contents.pipe(new Stream.PassThrough());
     this.contents = this.contents.pipe(new Stream.PassThrough());
   } else if (this.isBuffer()) {
-    file.contents = opt.contents ? cloneBuffer(this.contents) : this.contents;
+    contents = opt.contents ? cloneBuffer(this.contents) : this.contents;
   }
 
+  var file = new File({
+    cwd: this.cwd,
+    base: this.base,
+    stat: (this.stat ? cloneStats(this.stat) : null),
+    history: this.history.slice(),
+    contents: contents
+  });
+
   // clone our custom properties
   Object.keys(this).forEach(function(key) {
     // ignore built-in fields

test/File.js

@@ -34,6 +34,12 @@ describe('File', function() {
       done();
     });
 
+    it('should default history to []', function(done) {
+      var file = new File();
+      file.history.should.eql([]);
+      done();
+    });
+
     it('should default stat to null', function(done) {
       var file = new File();
       should.not.exist(file.stat);
@@ -64,6 +70,15 @@ describe('File', function() {
       var val = '/test.coffee';
       var file = new File({path: val});
       file.path.should.equal(val);
+      file.history.should.eql([val]);
+      done();
+    });
+
+    it('should set history to given value', function(done) {
+      var val = '/test.coffee';
+      var file = new File({history: [val]});
+      file.path.should.equal(val);
+      file.history.should.eql([val]);
       done();
     });