Hi Stolee,
On 11/04/22 19:16, Derrick Stolee wrote:
I recently installed v2.36.0-rc1 and started getting the warning about
the deprecation of core.useBuiltinFSMonitor configuration. It appeared
for each 'git' invocation which was a bit annoying. Fortunately, I had
some spare time so I went the route of actually applying the suggested
alternative rather than suppressing the warning.
So, the new alternative is to set core.fsmonitor=true, which continues
to use the builtin FS Monitor. What advice did you see that was
different?
Ah ha. I should've guessed that. The actual advice I saw was the following:
hint: core.useBuiltinFSMonitor will be deprecated soon; use
core.fsmonitor instead
hint: Disable this message with "git config
advice.useCoreFSMonitorConfig false"
Rather than trying out configuring 'core.fsmonitor' to 'true', I went
and took a look at the documentation for it in git-config [doc] which
read as follows:
If set, the value of this variable is used as a command which will
identify all files that may have changed since the requested
date/time.
That made me think the value could only be a command. So, it never
occurred to me that it could be a boolean. I just checked the local
doc that shows up when running `git config --help` in Windows and that
seems to clearly mention the behaviour that setting to `true` would
enable the built-in file system monitor. Looks like I made a mistake
and referred to the doc for v2.35.2 when trying out the v2.36.0-rc2 x-<
[doc]:
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-corefsmonitor
(Also, this thread will only apply to Git for Windows, since core Git
did not include core.useBuiltinFSMonitor. Feel free to move this
discussion to [1] if you'd rather talk there.)
[1] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/discussions/3251
Hopefully using core.fsmonitor=true solves your issue.
Yeah. That works fine and suppresses the warning properly. Thanks!
If you really want to use the Watchman-based hook solution, then
here's the rest of my response:
> ...
I do wish to try out Watchman but not right now. For now, I suppose
I'm fine with whatever the builtin fsmonitor does. Anyways, thanks
for the details!
--
Sivaraam
