I have reproduced the issue on the latest CLI version. Yes, I am on the latest version I have searched existing posts and this report is not a duplicate. Yes, this isn’t a duplicate In which of these areas are you experiencing a problem? Theme Expected behavior It should sync outdate/needed files…

:police_car_light: There has been a patch release fixing the issue for theme dev: [image] Release 3.87.1 · Shopify/cli What's Changed Fix bug where files were being constantly synced on Windows when running theme dev Full Changelog: 3.87.0...3.87.1 npx @sh…

Shopify Theme Dev syncs endlessly

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Shopify Theme Dev syncs endlessly

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