20 lines
952 B
Markdown
20 lines
952 B
Markdown
Investigated using the OSX fsevents API to detect when files are modified,
|
|
so they can be committed when using direct mode. There's a
|
|
[haskell library](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hfsevents-0.1.3)
|
|
and even a [sample directory watching program](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hobbes).
|
|
Initial tests look good...
|
|
|
|
Using fsevents will avoid kqueue's problems with needing enough file
|
|
descriptors to open every subdirectory. kqueue is a rather poor match for
|
|
git-annex's needs, really. It does not seem to provide events for file
|
|
modifications at all, unless every *file* is individually opened. While I
|
|
dislike leaving the BSD's out, they need a better interface to be perfectly
|
|
supported by git-annex, and kqueue will still work for indirect mode
|
|
repositories.
|
|
|
|
----
|
|
|
|
Got the assistant to use fsevents. It seems to work well!
|
|
|
|
The only problem I know of is that it doesn't yet handle whole directory
|
|
renames. That should be easy to fix later.
|