man pages section 1: User Commands

git-fsmonitor--daemon (1)

Name

git-fsmonitor--daemon - in File System Monitor

Synopsis

git fsmonitor--daemon start
git fsmonitor--daemon run
git fsmonitor--daemon stop
git fsmonitor--daemon status

Description

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NAME
       git-fsmonitor--daemon - A Built-in File System Monitor

SYNOPSIS
       git fsmonitor--daemon start
       git fsmonitor--daemon run
       git fsmonitor--daemon stop
       git fsmonitor--daemon status


DESCRIPTION
       A daemon to watch the working directory for file and directory changes
       using platform-specific file system notification facilities.

       This daemon communicates directly with commands like git status using
       the simple IPC[1] interface instead of the slower githooks(5)
       interface.

       This daemon is built into Git so that no third-party tools are
       required.

OPTIONS
       start
           Starts a daemon in the background.

       run
           Runs a daemon in the foreground.

       stop
           Stops the daemon running in the current working directory, if
           present.

       status
           Exits with zero status if a daemon is watching the current working
           directory.

REMARKS
       This daemon is a long running process used to watch a single working
       directory and maintain a list of the recently changed files and
       directories. Performance of commands such as git status can be
       increased if they just ask for a summary of changes to the working
       directory and can avoid scanning the disk.

       When core.fsmonitor is set to true (see git-config(1)) commands, such
       as git status, will ask the daemon for changes and automatically start
       it (if necessary).

       For more information see the "File System Monitor" section in git-
       update-index(1).

CAVEATS
       The fsmonitor daemon does not currently know about submodules and does
       not know to filter out file system events that happen within a
       submodule. If fsmonitor daemon is watching a super repo and a file is
       modified within the working directory of a submodule, it will report
       the change (as happening against the super repo). However, the client
       will properly ignore these extra events, so performance may be affected
       but it will not cause an incorrect result.

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite

NOTES
        1. simple IPC
           git-htmldocs/technical/api-simple-ipc.html



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