sass --watch does not compile stylesheets when it starts

[kagminjeong]

When I run sass --watch to watch a directory's worth of stylesheets, if the destination directory is empty sass does not compile my stylesheets when it starts. To get the stylesheets compiled I have to compile them myself initially. It would be helpful if sass --watch made a pass over all sources and compiled them if the corresponding destination stylesheets did not exist or were outdated.

[nex3]

This should work, and works for me. What's your sass --watch command line? What OS, Sass version, and Ruby version are you using?

[kagminjeong]

It was my mistake. I did:

sass --watch public/stylesheets/ public/compiled/stylesheets/

when the correct syntax is:

sass --watch public/stylesheets/:public/compiled/stylesheets/

It would be nice if sass either accepted both or complained about the first one.

[nex3]

sass --watch public/stylesheets/ public/compiled/stylesheets/ is a perfectly reasonable command. It means "watch all stylesheets in public/stylesheets and all stylesheets in public/compiled/stylesheets." I don't think there's a good way for Sass to determine that that's not what you meant here.

[kagminjeong]

Fair enough.