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. Co-authored-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Son Luong Ngoc <sluongng@xxxxxxxxx> --- templates/hooks--fsmonitor-watchman.sample | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/templates/hooks--fsmonitor-watchman.sample b/templates/hooks--fsmonitor-watchman.sample index 14ed0aa42d..23e856f5de 100755 --- a/templates/hooks--fsmonitor-watchman.sample +++ b/templates/hooks--fsmonitor-watchman.sample @@ -86,12 +86,13 @@ sub watchman_query { # recency index to select candidate nodes and "fields" to limit the # output to file names only. Then we're using the "expression" term to # further constrain the results. + my $last_update_line = ""; if (substr($last_update_token, 0, 1) eq "c") { $last_update_token = "\"$last_update_token\""; + $last_update_line = qq[\n"since": $last_update_token,]; } my $query = <<" END"; - ["query", "$git_work_tree", { - "since": $last_update_token, + ["query", "$git_work_tree", {$last_update_line "fields": ["name"], "expression": ["not", ["dirname", ".git"]] }] -- 2.36.1.476.g0c4daa206d