How to execute multiple targets with different options in grunt-contrib-jshint

Question

Goal: to flex the execution of jshint to output results to the console (if in development) or to a file (if being released/in Jenkins).

Is it possible? I can add individual targets to my jshint settings, but all of my options are the same except for the reporter details. So it'd be nice to not duplicate those. I need to do the concatenation from "all" and use all of the global options and the specific options from the target that is called. How?

jshint.js:

module.exports = {
    options: {
        node: true,
        browser: true,
        blah: blah...
    },
    all: [
        'Gruntfile.js',
        '<%= yeoman.app %>/modules/**/*.js',
        '<%= yeoman.app %>/*.js'
    ],
    dev: {
        options: {
            reporter: 'checkstyle'
        }
    }
    release: {
        options: {
            reporter: 'checkstyle',
            reporterOutput: 'myfile.xml'
        }
    }
};

Answer 1

I ended up going the variable route but using that for the files source and then overriding the necessary options in the targets.

var files = [
    'Gruntfile.js',
    '<%= yeoman.app %>/modules/**/*.js',
    '<%= yeoman.app %>/*.js'
];

module.exports = {
    options: {
        reporter: require('jshint-stylish'),
        node: true, ...
    },
    dev: {
        src: files
    },
    release: {
        src: files,
        options: {
            reporter: 'checkstyle',
            reporterOutput: 'myfile.xml',
            reporterOutputRelative: false
        }
    }
}

Based on other things I had read, I didn't think the default options would work in the targets and allow overriding, and I also had encountered problems with the files, but this solved everything.