In rare circumstances where the current git index does not carry the last_update_token, the fsmonitor v2 hook will be invoked with an empty string which would caused the final rendered json to be invalid. ["query", "/path/to/my/git/repository/", { "since": , "fields": ["name"], "expression": ["not", ["dirname", ".git"]] }] Which will left user with the following error message > git status failed to parse command from stdin: line 2, column 13, position 67: unexpected token near ',' Watchman: command returned no output. Falling back to scanning... Hide the "since" field in json query when "last_update_token" is empty. Signed-off-by: Son Luong Ngoc <sluongng@xxxxxxxxx> --- templates/hooks--fsmonitor-watchman.sample | 21 +++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/templates/hooks--fsmonitor-watchman.sample b/templates/hooks--fsmonitor-watchman.sample index 14ed0aa42d..b4ee86dfc4 100755 --- a/templates/hooks--fsmonitor-watchman.sample +++ b/templates/hooks--fsmonitor-watchman.sample @@ -79,6 +79,12 @@ sub watchman_query { or die "open2() failed: $!\n" . "Falling back to scanning...\n"; + my $query = <<" END"; + ["query", "$git_work_tree", { + "fields": ["name"], + "expression": ["not", ["dirname", ".git"]] + }] + END # In the query expression below we're asking for names of files that # changed since $last_update_token but not from the .git folder. # @@ -87,15 +93,14 @@ sub watchman_query { # output to file names only. Then we're using the "expression" term to # further constrain the results. if (substr($last_update_token, 0, 1) eq "c") { - $last_update_token = "\"$last_update_token\""; + $query = <<" END"; + ["query", "$git_work_tree", { + "since": "$last_update_token", + "fields": ["name"], + "expression": ["not", ["dirname", ".git"]] + }] + END } - my $query = <<" END"; - ["query", "$git_work_tree", { - "since": $last_update_token, - "fields": ["name"], - "expression": ["not", ["dirname", ".git"]] - }] - END # Uncomment for debugging the watchman query # open (my $fh, ">", ".git/watchman-query.json"); -- 2.36.1.231.g6924ef9a07