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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2022-04-04 10:56:24 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2022-04-04 10:56:24 -0700 |
| commit | 439c1e6d5d8ad4d1134fc6ff5e514d28ff9ecac4 (patch) | |
| tree | b1a7ebce54d1160b78ba93afcca3ccda26d53ce9 /Documentation/git-update-index.txt | |
| parent | ba2452b247dfd455bccbcb04acdcfd142cb5397e (diff) | |
| parent | a3dfe97f418762ccf1d0601c5cce40c77046d4fc (diff) | |
| download | git-439c1e6d5d8ad4d1134fc6ff5e514d28ff9ecac4.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'jh/builtin-fsmonitor-part2'
Built-in fsmonitor (part 2).
* jh/builtin-fsmonitor-part2: (30 commits)
t7527: test status with untracked-cache and fsmonitor--daemon
fsmonitor: force update index after large responses
fsmonitor--daemon: use a cookie file to sync with file system
fsmonitor--daemon: periodically truncate list of modified files
t/perf/p7519: add fsmonitor--daemon test cases
t/perf/p7519: speed up test on Windows
t/perf/p7519: fix coding style
t/helper/test-chmtime: skip directories on Windows
t/perf: avoid copying builtin fsmonitor files into test repo
t7527: create test for fsmonitor--daemon
t/helper/fsmonitor-client: create IPC client to talk to FSMonitor Daemon
help: include fsmonitor--daemon feature flag in version info
fsmonitor--daemon: implement handle_client callback
compat/fsmonitor/fsm-listen-darwin: implement FSEvent listener on MacOS
compat/fsmonitor/fsm-listen-darwin: add MacOS header files for FSEvent
compat/fsmonitor/fsm-listen-win32: implement FSMonitor backend on Windows
fsmonitor--daemon: create token-based changed path cache
fsmonitor--daemon: define token-ids
fsmonitor--daemon: add pathname classification
fsmonitor--daemon: implement 'start' command
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-update-index.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-update-index.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt index 568dbfe76b..64315e2e8c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt @@ -527,7 +527,9 @@ FILE SYSTEM MONITOR This feature is intended to speed up git operations for repos that have large working directories. -It enables git to work together with a file system monitor (see the +It enables git to work together with a file system monitor (see +linkgit:git-fsmonitor--daemon[1] +and the "fsmonitor-watchman" section of linkgit:githooks[5]) that can inform it as to what files have been modified. This enables git to avoid having to lstat() every file to find modified files. @@ -538,8 +540,8 @@ looking for new files. If you want to enable (or disable) this feature, it is easier to use the `core.fsmonitor` configuration variable (see -linkgit:git-config[1]) than using the `--fsmonitor` option to -`git update-index` in each repository, especially if you want to do so +linkgit:git-config[1]) than using the `--fsmonitor` option to `git +update-index` in each repository, especially if you want to do so across all repositories you use, because you can set the configuration variable in your `$HOME/.gitconfig` just once and have it affect all repositories you touch. |