Abort when files missing about grunt-contrib-concat

[vladikoff]

http://gruntjs.com/configuring-tasks#files
nonull?

[FrankFang]

No. nonull can log a warning message, but it does not have Grunt abort.

[shama]

This is something that should be configurable in Grunt's core. We get issues opened up both ways, some users want tasks to abort on warning and some don't. The tasks that do abort were getting issues opened to implement a force option per task. So the consensus was all tasks shouldn't abort, just warn. Then later implement an option in Grunt's core that would make this configurable.

A workaround for now is:

grunt.log.warn = grunt.warn;

[andrewwakeling]

I would love to see this in Grunt's core or in the very least, for it be possible and consistent in all of the contrib plugins.

In grunt-contrib-uglify, there's been similar discussion.

Any chance we can evolve the nonull option to be one (or more) of the following options: "log", "warn", "notify" or "fail"?

I can understand why people may not want grunt to abort a build if files aren't matched on wildcards. If you're pointing to a specific file, I really think the default behaviour should be to abort the build if that file isn't found.

Coming from other build tools, this is really a fundamental feature that's missing in Grunt.

[SimonKenyonShepard]

Did this ever get implemented in the Grunt core? A year later and our project is still suffering the same, would love to be able to turn on the ability to fail when a specified file is missing.

[vladimirkosmala]

This topic is still relevant. grunt-contrib-concat should have an option to abort when file missing when we use it in production.