From: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Create a manual page describing the `git fsmonitor--daemon` feature. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-fsmonitor--daemon.txt | 75 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 75 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/git-fsmonitor--daemon.txt diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsmonitor--daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-fsmonitor--daemon.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..154e7684daae --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-fsmonitor--daemon.txt @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +git-fsmonitor--daemon(1) +======================== + +NAME +---- +git-fsmonitor--daemon - A Built-in File System Monitor + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'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 link:technical/api-simple-ipc.html[simple IPC] interface +instead of the slower linkgit: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.useBuiltinFSMonitor` is set to `true` (see +linkgit: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 +linkgit: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 linkgit:git[1] suite -- gitgitgadget
