Re: Bug Report: git status triggers a file change event

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Feb 22, 2018, 18:18 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kZBrG7uQ5KOrpdkkhzet7chJhxVsKjTnVMQTrSGFAMZhw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180222052227.GA133592@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 9:22 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

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> +git-for-windows
> Hi,
>
> Raining Chain wrote:
>
>> On Windows 10, git version 2.16.2.windows.1, running the command
>>
>> git status
>>
>> will trigger a file change event to file C:\myPath\.git  "Attributes changed."
>>
>> This causes problems when using scripts that detect file changes such
>> as tsc -w (Typescript compiler) and using softwares that regularly
>> call git status such as VisualStudioCode.
>>
>> Thanks.

Does https://github.com/git/git/commit/27344d6a6c8056664966e11acf674e5da6dd7ee3 help?

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> Can you say more about how "tsc -w" reacts to the file change?  Is there
> a way to tell it to exclude particular files from the files it watches?
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan