Incremental builds

[Jeehut]

When blade is integrated as a build script to automatically be run on each build then build times can become quite long because blade is generating all images – even if nothing has changed. Therefore it would be great if blade could detect when it has to rebuild images and otherwise just keep things as is and skip images that didn't change.

I think in order to achieve this there are several possibilities. The easiest could be that blade simply checks the last change dates of the source file and the destination file and compares those. If the destination file was last changed after the source file was changed then it could skip rebuilding the image, otherwise it would behave like now.

Alternatively blade could also generate a file (something like Bladefile.lock) which lists the date the source images were last built and check if that date is after the source images last change date and the Bladefiles last change date then it would skip the image if both cases were given.

If implemented there should also be a possibility to force rebuilding all images, something like blade --no-skip-unchanged is what I'm thinking of. We could also make it opt-in like so: blade --skip-unchanged.

What do you think? Unfortunately I can't do these changes myself since I don't speak Go (yet).

[jondot]

Hey @Dschee, I missed this issue because I got no notification (dang!). Still having this problem?

[Jeehut]

Nothing changed since I created this issue, so yes, I'm still having this "problem". ;)