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Wow. I wasn't expecting anything like a filesystem monitor in git(1) itself.
They post says Jeff Hostetler, the author of the patches, will make a blog post delving into it. So it's worth bookmarking that post and coming back.
Apparently git 2.16 had a fsmonitor for watchman itself (it got passed me): https://github.com/git/git/commit/def4376711f607914bfb784f8d...
My understanding it this kind of abstraction needs to be written across platforms. And it says just Mac (FSEvents?) and Windows (ReadDirectoryChangesW?) for now. So can we expect Linux (inotify?) and FreeBSD (kqueue ) in the future?
Anyway, I hope this venture is fruitful. The premise of having cross-platform file watching without needing an extra application is delightful.
Thank you Jeff!
I believe one area that may be tricky is kqueue, I believe it has limits in watching directories.