I found that the HTTP interceptor method works pretty nicely, and allows additional flexibility & control. Additionally, you can cache-bust for each production release by using a release hash as the buster variable.
Here is what the dev cachebusting method looks like using Date.
app.factory('cachebustInjector', function(conf) {
var cachebustInjector = {
request: function(config) {
// new timestamp will be appended to each new partial .html request to prevent caching in a dev environment
var buster = new Date().getTime();
if (config.url.indexOf('static/angular_templates') > -1) {
config.url += ['?v=', buster].join('');
}
return config;
}
};
return cachebustInjector;
});
app.config(['$httpProvider', function($httpProvider) {
$httpProvider.interceptors.push('cachebustInjector');
}]);