Preserve results of sbt incremental compilation when moving project directory

Question

Consider the scenario: I have a simple scala project managed by sbt, in a directory called

foo

.

cd foo

sbt compile

It now takes a few seconds and the project compiles correctly.

Now, thanks to sbt incremental compilation, if I run

sbt compile

it terminates the compile task in close to 0 seconds, since the source code hasn't changed.

But if I rename the

foo

directory into

bar

cd ..

mv foo bar

and try to compile it again

cd bar

sbt compile

now the compile task takes again few seconds, hence not using the results from the previous compilation.

Is there a way to preserve the incremental compilation results of a project even when its absolute path on disk has changed?

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Answer 1

As it turns out, there's some work in progress to make incremental compilation results cacheable. Here's the relevant PR: https://github.com/sbt/zinc/pull/216.

Also, there's an issue (being discussed at the time of this writing) about making zinc's analysis completely machine independent. See https://github.com/sbt/zinc/issues/218.

Preserve results of sbt incremental compilation when moving project directory

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