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Files order is not preserved in buffer mode

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#300 opened on Feb 22, 2014

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Description

When the buffer mode is used and some plugins are doing some async stuffs on buffers, it leads to unordered files in the stream.

Creating a plugin that works asynchronously on buffers and preserve the inputed files order is over complicated.

The problem doesn't appear for streaming mode since all pipes are done immediatly.

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Research direction
Investigate how gulp handles file ordering in buffer mode with async plugins. Locate the part of the stream where order is lost and consider implementing a mechanism to preserve order, such as queueing or tracking original indices.
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javascriptnodejs
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