Clean doesn't work with ci

[szkrd]

anvil --ci --clean cleans up on startup, but not anymore (anvil 0.9.1, node 0.8.18, win7).

[arobson]

Hi @rosamez,

That's intentional; this is largely because the CI mode performs incremental builds; only outputting files that were affected by the latest change. If a clean ran after an incremental build, it would require Anvil to re-create the entire build (and lose the advantage of incremental builds altogether).

Can you describe the use case you are interested in covering via the clean?

[szkrd]

I think a valid use case would be dev mode with small projects, where I move files around / delete them often and have to check the output manually - these files are not removed from the lib dir, but I guess this is nothing more than an inconvenience. I can accept that it is by design, though stressing the incrementally nature in the help (at least in --help) would not hurt.

[arobson]

@rosamez - when a file is deleted Anvil is supposed to delete it from output. I'll take a look at what I can do to reproduce this and fix it.