running grunt-newer with grunt-ssh causes the full task / upload to run

[Ioquai]

I want to use grunt-newer for grunt-ssh to just upload modified files. But the task always uploads all files. The cache file is created but empty. Do you have any advice?

[manishie]

Yup, I'm seeing the same behavior with grunt-ssh. Any ideas?

[tschaub]

The newer task filters the src files provided to the wrapped task using this logic:

• if there is a dest file configured, src files are included if any one of their mtime is more recent than the dest file mtime
• if there is no dest file configured, (all) src files are included if any one of their mtime is more recent than the last successful task run time

I haven't used the grunt-ssh task, but I'm assuming that it isn't configured with dest files that are accessible with fs.stat.