"Eric DeCosta via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Goal is to deliver fsmonitor for Linux that is on par with fsmonitor for > Windows and Mac OS. > > This patch set builds upon previous work for done for Windows and Mac OS to > implement a fsmonitor back-end for Linux based on the Linux inotify API. > inotify differs significantly from the equivalent Windows and Mac OS APIs in > that a watch must be registered for every directory of interest (rather than > a singular watch at the root of the directory tree) and special care must be > taken to handle directory renames correctly. > > More information about inotify: > https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/inotify.7.html > > v4 differs from v3: > > * Code review feedback This has been dormant for full four months, and it seems to break linux-asan CI job when merged to 'seen', https://github.com/git/git/actions/runs/4672116751/jobs/8273938089 while the same 'seen' excluding this topic passes everything. https://github.com/git/git/actions/runs/4674694371 For now, I'll drop this topic from 'seen'. Thanks.
