Can I add 40 lines of @source? It decreased my CSS output bytes

[bilogic]

1. Because of Tailwind does not scan symlinks #19476, I was compelled to add each symlink manually, a total of 40.
2. Not only did the output CSS size not increase, it decreased instead, seemingly to imply that all 40 lines were ignored
3. It's quite frustrating that Tailwind does not generate logs or errors.
   • which folders and files did it scan?
   • are there any files it could not scan?

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• Tailwind does not scan symlinks #19476

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• @source not: Cannot ignore symlinked directory because symlink is optimized away #17985
• Tailwindcss 4.1.7 is too slow #18101
• Bug: Tailwind CSS Fails to Scan Files Without Git Initialization (git init) #18190

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[wongjn]

You can create a log file by setting DEBUG=* with your compilation command like:

DEBUG=* npm run build

[bilogic]

build started...

[2071.48ms] [@tailwindcss/vite] Generate CSS (build)
[ 895.80ms]   ↳ Scan for candidates
[  30.65ms]   ↳ Build CSS
[   0.00ms]   ↳ Build Source Map
[ 168.45ms] [@tailwindcss/vite] Optimize CSS

✓ 1 modules transformed.
public/build/manifest.json              0.27 kB │ gzip:  0.15 kB
public/build/assets/app-DH3L1yZJ.css  749.27 kB │ gzip: 87.19 kB
public/build/assets/app-BzeVfpPy.js   167.42 kB │ gzip: 44.83 kB
built in 10629ms.

This is all I see.. doesn't say what's wrong

[wongjn]

There should be a tailwind-*.log file which has more useful scanning debugging details.

[bilogic]

finally saw it now thanks!