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| author | Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> | 2022-03-25 21:02:48 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2022-03-26 02:04:15 +0300 |
| commit | 3248486920d0bfc5584747dc7af8414d05282191 (patch) | |
| tree | 52ae1fddb291e636059de820b6c7be656e77cd11 /Documentation/git-update-index.txt | |
| parent | 9c307e8afd930485a8409cadf8cc7065512d9845 (diff) | |
fsmonitor: document builtin fsmonitor
Document how `core.fsmonitor` can be set to a boolean to enable
or disable the builtin FSMonitor.
Update references to `core.fsmonitor` and `core.fsmonitorHookVersion` and
pointers to `Watchman` to refer to it.
Create `git-fsmonitor--daemon` manual page and describe its features.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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 2853f168d9..53ea48a04e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt @@ -498,7 +498,9 @@ 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. @@ -509,8 +511,8 @@ 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. |