skip_server doesn't watch for changes in the list of files referenced by globs in skip.project.json about skip HOT 6 CLOSED

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Ok, that's super strange.

There is this piece of logic that should detect a file change. You can find it in the sk script.

if [ -f "$skdir/skfiles" ]; then
    find "$root" -name "*.sk" > "$skdir/skfiles_new"

    if [ $(diff "$skdir/skfiles" "$skdir/skfiles_new") ]; then
	echo "Detected a file configuration change"
        restart
    fi
fi

This should detect that you added or removed a new sk file.

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Possibly related - Sometimes (but not every time) I get the following error:

$ sk check compiler/
.../bin/sk: line 218: [: too many arguments

Line 218 is the diff line from your comment.

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In particular - I was getting that error when I would expect it to detect a new file...

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Humm. I just tested on my machine, I don't see any error :-(

How did you install sk?

I did, in the skip root dir:
$ ./prepare-release.sh 0.7 && cd skip-Linux-0.7 && ./install.sh path_to_skip_bin

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@edwinsmith's fix is correct - to test you need to add multiple files
Easiest fix is:

@@ -215,7 +215,8 @@
 if [ -f "$skdir/skfiles" ]; then
     find "$root" -name "*.sk" > "$skdir/skfiles_new"

-    if [ $(diff "$skdir/skfiles" "$skdir/skfiles_new") ]; then
+    diff -q "$skdir/skfiles" "$skdir/skfiles_new" > /dev/null
+    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
        echo "Detected a file configuration change"
        restart
     fi

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