In tsc --build how to overcome --incremental and --tsBuildInfoFile

Issue

Different parts of my typescript application lives in different subdirectories. In the top directory a tsconfig.json references the various sub-tsconfigs. I build the application by tsc --build This works perfectly. All subproject have incremental: true defined and some also tsBuildInfoFile.

Now I want to force a rebuild. Simple for each subproject by tsc -p subproj --incremental false --tsBuildInfoFile null but how to pass these options to --build?

When I tried I receive:

client/tsconfig.json:16:9 - error TS5069: Option 'tsBuildInfoFile' cannot be specified without specifying option 'incremental' or option 'composite'.

16         "incremental": true,
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

client/tsconfig.json:17:9 - error TS5069: Option 'tsBuildInfoFile' cannot be specified without specifying option 'incremental' or option 'composite'.

17         "tsBuildInfoFile": "./tsconfig.tsbuildinfo",

Thanks!

Solution

Changing incremental breaks related options. To force a rebuild use the option --force

Answered By - SystematicFrank