Git fsmonitor

Hi,

I could not find details about which platforms are supported for the fsmonitor feature. I am running debian 10 servers and git-2.4.0 and I am getting:

fatal: fsmonitor--daemon not supported on this platform

Thanks in advance.

Fred

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 5:57 PM Frédéric Landry <fred.landry@pqm.net> wrote:

The doc about core.fsmonitor says:

"The built-in file system monitor is currently available only on a limited set of supported platforms. Currently, this includes Windows and MacOS."

You can still configure a hook instead of the built-in system monitor to get a similar feature on Linux. For example the githooks doc has a "fsmonitor-watchman" section to use https://facebook.github.io/watchman/ which works on Linux using inotify.

Git 2.4.0 from 2015 or Git 2.40.0 from 2023?

Best, Christian.

Hi,

Thanks for your reply! I did not build the doc, I should have ! sorry about that.

Watchman looks perfect! I will try that.

Oh and yes, I meant 2.40.

Have a great day

-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> 
Sent: April 4, 2023 4:22 PM
To: Frédéric Landry <fred.landry@pqm.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git fsmonitor

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 5:57 PM Frédéric Landry <fred.landry@pqm.net> wrote:

The doc about core.fsmonitor says:

"The built-in file system monitor is currently available only on a limited set of supported platforms. Currently, this includes Windows and MacOS."

You can still configure a hook instead of the built-in system monitor to get a similar feature on Linux. For example the githooks doc has a "fsmonitor-watchman" section to use https://facebook.github.io/watchman/ which works on Linux using inotify.

Git 2.4.0 from 2015 or Git 2.40.0 from 2023?

Best, Christian.