Nodemon doesn't reload under certain scenarios where two -w flags passed

Nodemon doesn’t reload (as I think would be expected) in cases where:

• There are two -w flags passed to it AND
• The file referenced by the second -w flag exists AND
• The file referenced by the first -w flag does not exist when nodemon is first started, but is created while nodemon is running

• nodemon -v: 2.0.6
• node -v: 14.5

I’ve created an environment for reproducing the issue in a public repo here:

https://github.com/acannon828/nodemon_issue

To reproduce the issue, the environment requires GNU make be installed, and that docker and docker-compose be installed. The README.txt in this repo includes steps on how to reproduce the issue, and what I think would be the expected behavior.

Here’s output from adding the --dump flag to the nodemon command I’m running in this repo:

server_1  | > nodemon --dump -C -w bin/index.js -w foo.txt
server_1  |
server_1  | [nodemon] 2.0.6
server_1  | [nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
server_1  | [nodemon] watching path(s): bin/index.js foo.txt
server_1  | [nodemon] watching extensions: js,mjs,json
server_1  | --------------
server_1  | node: v14.5.0
server_1  | nodemon: 2.0.6
server_1  | command: /usr/local/bin/node /usr/src/server/node_modules/.bin/nodemon --dump -C -w bin/index.js -w foo.txt
server_1  | cwd: /usr/src/server
server_1  | OS: linux x64
server_1  | --------------
server_1  | {
server_1  |   run: false,
server_1  |   system: { cwd: '/usr/src/server' },
server_1  |   required: false,
server_1  |   dirs: [ '/usr/src/server/foo.txt' ],
server_1  |   timeout: 1000,
server_1  |   options: {
server_1  |     dump: true,
server_1  |     runOnChangeOnly: true,
server_1  |     watch: [ 'bin/index.js', 'foo.txt', re: /bin\/index\.js|foo\.txt/ ],
server_1  |     ignore: [
server_1  |       '**/.git/**',
server_1  |       '**/.nyc_output/**',
server_1  |       '**/.sass-cache/**',
server_1  |       '**/bower_components/**',
server_1  |       '**/coverage/**',
server_1  |       '**/node_modules/**',
server_1  |       re: /.*.*\/\.git\/.*.*|.*.*\/\.nyc_output\/.*.*|.*.*\/\.sass\-cache\/.*.*|.*.*\/bower_components\/.*.*|.*.*\/coverage\/.*.*|.*.*\/node_modules\/.*.*/
server_1  |     ],
server_1  |     monitor: [
server_1  |       'bin/index.js',
server_1  |       'foo.txt',
server_1  |       '!**/.git/**',
server_1  |       '!**/.nyc_output/**',
server_1  |       '!**/.sass-cache/**',
server_1  |       '!**/bower_components/**',
server_1  |       '!**/coverage/**',
server_1  |       '!**/node_modules/**'
server_1  |     ],
server_1  |     ignoreRoot: [
server_1  |       '**/.git/**',
server_1  |       '**/.nyc_output/**',
server_1  |       '**/.sass-cache/**',
server_1  |       '**/bower_components/**',
server_1  |       '**/coverage/**',
server_1  |       '**/node_modules/**'
server_1  |     ],
server_1  |     restartable: 'rs',
server_1  |     colours: true,
server_1  |     execMap: { py: 'python', rb: 'ruby', ts: 'ts-node' },
server_1  |     stdin: true,
server_1  |     verbose: false,
server_1  |     signal: 'SIGUSR2',
server_1  |     stdout: true,
server_1  |     watchOptions: {},
server_1  |     execOptions: {
server_1  |       script: 'bin/index.js',
server_1  |       exec: 'node',
server_1  |       args: [],
server_1  |       scriptPosition: 0,
server_1  |       nodeArgs: undefined,
server_1  |       execArgs: [],
server_1  |       ext: 'js,mjs,json',
server_1  |       env: {}
server_1  |     }
server_1  |   },
server_1  |   load: [Function (anonymous)],
server_1  |   reset: [Function: reset],
server_1  |   lastStarted: 0,
server_1  |   loaded: [],
server_1  |   watchInterval: null,
server_1  |   signal: 'SIGUSR2',
server_1  |   command: {
server_1  |     raw: { executable: 'node', args: [ 'bin/index.js' ] },
server_1  |     string: 'node bin/index.js'
server_1  |   }
server_1  | }
server_1  | --------------
nodemon_issue_server_1 exited with code 0

Hope that helps!

[remy]

Can you post the output when the file is touched (that should trigger a reload) with DEBUG=nodemon,nodemon:* nodemon … at the beginning - it’ll show why it was ignored.

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