List files and directories created/updated by quarto render

[Victor-Botelho]

My team currently uses a Git Hook to automatically render .qmd files and stage and commit the files and directories created/updated by such command. It would be interesting if quarto render could return some kind of output containing all files and directories updated/created, so I could program my Git Hook to staged and commit such results.

[mavam]

I was literally about to ask the same question. My use case is just slightly different: I would like to conditionally run Quarto only when the inputs have changed, in a Makefile in my project:

quarto-r-deps:
	@Rscript -e 'if (!require(pak)) { \
                 install.packages("pak"); \
                 library(pak) \
               }; \
               pak::local_install_dev_deps()'

quarto: quarto-r-deps
	@quarto render

If I had some sort of manifest file that contains a list of generated files, then I can use that as a target with all *.qmd files as inputs and create the make dependency DAG easily.

[Victor-Botelho]

The log behavior is even stranger when you look at the logs generated by the quarto render command. Even if you ask for the maximum level of verbosity when converting multiple files, Quartos' log will indicate only one output created: that of the first file rendered. It completely ignores any _freeze/ and *_files/ directories, as well as other files created besides the first one rendered.

[cderv]

Just as reference, possible related use case in quarto-dev/quarto-r#14