When we poke index-helper, and index-helper is using watchman, we want
to wait for a response (showing that the watchman extension shm has
been prepared). If it's not using watchman, we don't.
So add a new config, core.waitforindexhelper, with sensible defaults, to
configure this behavior.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/config.txt | 6 ++++++
cache.h | 1 +
config.c | 5 +++++
environment.c | 5 +++++
read-cache.c | 5 ++++-
5 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 8ec8824..f61e6fe 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -670,6 +670,12 @@ Likewise, when the `LV` environment variable is unset, Git sets it
to `-c`. You can override this setting by exporting `LV` with
another value or setting `core.pager` to `lv +c`.
+core.waitforindexhelper::
+ If true, git status and other commands which use the index
+ will wait for a response from the index-helper before continuing;
+ this gives time for the index-helper to communicate with watchman
+ and give information about modified files.
+
core.whitespace::
A comma separated list of common whitespace problems to
notice. 'git diff' will use `color.diff.whitespace` to
diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 5713835..db66451 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -691,6 +691,7 @@ extern char *git_replace_ref_base;
extern int fsync_object_files;
extern int core_preload_index;
extern int core_watchman_sync_timeout;
+extern int wait_for_index_helper;
extern int core_apply_sparse_checkout;
extern int precomposed_unicode;
extern int protect_hfs;
diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index e6dc141..5f1b8bd 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -887,6 +887,11 @@ static int git_default_core_config(const char *var, const char *value)
return 0;
}
+ if (!strcmp(var, "core.waitforindexhelper")) {
+ wait_for_index_helper = git_config_bool(var, value);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
if (!strcmp(var, "core.createobject")) {
if (!strcmp(value, "rename"))
object_creation_mode = OBJECT_CREATION_USES_RENAMES;
diff --git a/environment.c b/environment.c
index 35e03c7..c7fb0a9 100644
--- a/environment.c
+++ b/environment.c
@@ -95,6 +95,11 @@ int core_preload_index = 1;
int ignore_untracked_cache_config;
int core_watchman_sync_timeout = 300;
+#ifdef USE_WATCHMAN
+int wait_for_index_helper = 1;
+#else
+int wait_for_index_helper = 0;
+#endif
/* This is set by setup_git_dir_gently() and/or git_default_config() */
diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index 264a25b..224a019 100644
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -1846,7 +1846,10 @@ static int poke_daemon(struct index_state *istate,
if (refresh_cache) {
ret = write_in_full(fd, "refresh", 8) != 8;
} else {
- ret = poke_and_wait_for_reply(fd);
+ if (wait_for_index_helper)
+ ret = poke_and_wait_for_reply(fd);
+ else
+ ret = write_in_full(fd, "poke", 5) != 5;
}
close(fd);
--
2.4.2.767.g62658d5-twtrsrc
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