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`overwrite` option in `.dest()`
See original GitHub issueIt would be useful if .dest() had an option to not overwrite existing files.
Use-case: You build a lot of stuff into a dist folder and you want a task to copy all the files that weren’t already processed by the pipeline. Yes you could do some trickery with streams, but this would be much easier.
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- Created 9 years ago
- Comments:15 (5 by maintainers)
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closed by #59 - use master or it will be out in the 4.0 release
Instead of +1 maybe you should think about sending a pull request…