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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 23, 2018, 12:18 UTC
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1802231315480.56@ZVAVAG-6OXH6DA.rhebcr.pbec.zvpebfbsg.pbz>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kZBrG7uQ5KOrpdkkhzet7chJhxVsKjTnVMQTrSGFAMZhw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, Stefan Beller wrote:

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

First of all, this is clearly not a Windows-specific problem, as the index file *is* updated, and that is simply the same behavior as on Linux/macOS.

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> > 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."

Correct, because .git\index 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.

Visual Studio Code most likely does not look at .git for worktree changes.

As to the Typescript compiler: it should only look for .ts files, I would be very surprised if it was confused by .git's filesystem attributes changing!

If tsw is still confused, try adding

	"exclude": [
	    ".git"
	]

to your tsconfig.json.

Ciao, Johannes