Intermediate directories skipped about grunt-contrib-copy HOT 8 CLOSED

that is exactly the issue. we really only know about the files that exist so based on that a basePath is found. this is assist in preventing deep folder structures say you are copying a set of files that were generated by another task into a compiled/type/{files} setup, before basePath you would end up with compiled being the root of the copied structure. however basePath finds type to be the root because it has the files your minimatch told it about. it effectively just compressed the depth by 2 levels.

you can easily override and set basePath to stuff to get expected results. this seems to come up a bit but the task was never intended to work like cp. It is a copier using grunt conventions and usually you'd be dealing with compiled results so thats why it auto-attempts to find basePath.

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Okay, I guess I would recommend being even more explicit about this important distinction.

I did read the "Recent Confusion" section of this task's README, but being a new Grunt user, I did not realize that "designed to use grunt conventions" means "omits directories". Since you are saying this is as designed, perhaps an additional example demonstrating this behavior would be helpful. Is there any grunt documentation that would lead me to expect this convention? When I read the source of this task, the only conclusion I came to was that this was some kind of bug, because this choice seems very surprising to me.

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Any chance you could distill your last post into a sentence or two that can go in the basePath section for the readme on this task?

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ill see what i can come up with, i think im going to revisit how basePath works a bit. one thing i plan to add is option to use false and have it leaves paths alone for those who aren't happy with its results, i also want to make a helper that does all the trimming of basePath from a string just so its centralized.

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please see #18. added notes and added ability to pass false to disable completely. think this issue can be closed.

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faced with the same issue. It's better to have option for such behavior that a bit unexpected.

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basePath is replaced with cwd in v0.4 devel. this should resolve a lot of the confusion.

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this can be closed as its resolved with new cwd feature in devel

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