"Adding" files/folders emitter NOT fired. (Mac OS X 10.11)

[mralexgray]

Proof is in pudding..

var gaze = require('gaze'),
       t = require('touch'),
    base = '/private/var/tmp/',
existing = base + 'existingfile' + Math.random(), 
 newfile = base + 'newfile' + Math.random()

touch.sync(existing)

gaze (base + '*', function(err, watcher){
    this.on('all', function(event, filepath) {
        console.log (filepath + ' was ' + event)
    })
    setTimeout(function () {
        touch(newfile) // This will never be noticed.
        touch(existing) // Touching existing files works ok.
    }, 3000);
})

/private/var/tmp/existingfile0.5537692755460739 was changed

The new file that also got touched /private/var/tmp/newfileXYZ.... _never gets a notification_ 👎

[shama]

Gaze uses file patterns instead of file paths to watch files. Try this instead:

gaze('*', { cwd: base }, function () {
  this.on('all', function (event, filepath) {
    console.log(filepath + ' was ' + event)
  })
})

[mikeyhew]

So you just need to add the "cwd" option, right? Would be good to add to the readme.

[mikeyhew]

Wait no, that's not it. Somehow as soon as I change '*' to '*.js' it stops detecting new files. Why is that?

[mikeyhew]

OK never mind, now it's working...

[mikeyhew]

Sorry for all the comments, but I did some more testing and figured some things out: it seems to detect new files if and only if there is no / in the glob pattern. Which I guess is what @shama meant with "file patterns instead of file paths"

[thehappycoder]

With gaze(${watchedDirName}/**/*, ...) no events when adding a new folder

[TehShrike]

I suspect this is a duplicate of #167.