Using the notify flag does not create or update the target file

[NikolaDonchev]

Describe the bug
Trying to use the notify flag to generate the update file

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. run command 'theme watch -e [something] --notify=/tmp/theme.update'

Expected behavior
A file to be created that will update on a file change. Even if I manually create the file - still nothing.

Environment (please complete the following information):

• OS: macOS 10.14.3
• Themekit version: v1
• Editor: VS Code

[tanema]

This may be because of your permissions on that file/folder. You can run this example for yourself

• start theme watch --notify=notify.txt
• in another terminal run fswatch -o notify.txt in the same directory as your theme
• change a file in your theme.

[NikolaDonchev]

Hi @tanema, this unfortunately doesn't help. The file gets created successfully but nothing gets updated. No difference even if I change the permissions of the file.

[tanema]

Did you try using fswatch like my example? fswatch I believe comes standard on OSX so you should be able to do so without installing anything. The file only gets touched, this means only timestamps are changing, is there something else that you are expecting?

Edit: Sorry I was wrong about fswatch, it is a tool I installed. You can install it for testing with brew install fswatch

[tanema]

What are you using to watch the notify file? It wouldn't happen to be gulp, would it? We have another issue open here #607 where other users have experienced problems with gulp not picking up changes because gulp no longer watched timestamps.

[NikolaDonchev]

Hi @tanema many thanks for the replies! I am luckily not using gulp anymore, only webpack. I got it to work, had some permission issues. Thanks again!