More of an FYI

the commit fe2525c from 12 days ago broke our dev environment, since we have our fsw.yml file in specific locations and use -config for that.

Not really an issue for us, forking and rolling back works fine. But a somewhat alienating experience.

I have an error - fswatch >>> too many open files
Config like so:
{
    "paths": [
        "/path/to/project"
    ],
    "depth": 5,
    "exclude": [],
    "include": [
        "\\.(go|tmpl)$"
    ],
    "command": "echo helloworld",
    "env": {
        "POWERD_BY": "github.com/codeskyblue/fswatch"
    },
    "autorestart": false,
    "restart-interval": 0,
    "kill-signal": "KILL"
}

If I set depth to 2, all works. But I want deeper nesting.
It seems to fswatch open all files, not only that in "include"
I have folder ./static/ which has many files. How can I excude it?

ubuntu@ip-172-31-22-178:~/go/src/github.com/shxsun/klog$ go build

github.com/shxsun/klog

./klog.go:135: undefined: strings.TrimSuffix

Good evening,

I can't seem to ignore an entire directory. I've tried several patterns and they all seem to fail me.

  pattens:
  - '**/*.go'
  - '!./frontend/'

Basically what happens is that it starts watching frontend/node_modules and then explodes with too many open files.

Is there a way to configure this so that it does not walk that directory?

Is there a way to watch external directories (outside the current project)

Like:

 pattens:
  - '**/*.go'
  - '**/*.yml'
  - '$GOPATH/src/gitlab.com/my-library/**/*.go'

I am building some packages that live outside the project, and I want to have my project restart when those files are changed

It may be I just have the incorrect syntax

I'm using macaron with fswatch. Sometimes when edit a file, it will cause

[Macaron] listening on 0.0.0.0:8181 (development)
[Macaron] listen tcp 0.0.0.0:8181: bind: address already in use
fswatch >>> [watch] program exited: exit status 1

Seems the old process is not killed successfully.

BTW, this problem does not always happen. But it has already happend many times since I migrate to the new version of fswatch.

Hi, it would be very helpful if you could add github releases to your versions so that it's easier to pin down to a specific version. Thanks a lot!!!

This is a feature request.
Would it be possible to pass a list of files which were updated to the command.
Or provide an option to execute command for every event and pass the name of a file to the command as well.

I'm using NFS with vagrant to build a project. Modifying files on the host doesn't get picked up inside the guest. Is there any support for these type of events?

Before I used the old version of fswatch, but sometimes would meet some bugs. So I decide to update to the newest version. But I find that it not works. Below is the layout of my sample project.

- bin
- src
    - github.com
    - gopkg.in
    - main
        - main.go
        - routers.go

main.go

package main

import "gopkg.in/macaron.v1"

var (
    m *macaron.Macaron
)

func main() {
    m = macaron.New()

    initRouters()
    m.Run(8181)
}

routers.go

package main

func initRouters() {
    m.Get("/test", func() string {
        return "test"
    })
}

The .fsw.yml file

desc: Auto generated by fswatch [student-card]
triggers:
- name: "watch"
  pattens:
  - '*.go'
  env:
    DEBUG: "1"
  cmd: go build main && mv main bin && ./bin/main
  delay: 100ms
  signal: HUP
watch_paths:
- .
watch_depth: 5

I run below code in the root folder of my project

$ ./bin/main/fswatch -version
2.0
$ ./bin/main/fswatch
fswatch
fswatch >>> [watch] exec start: go build main && mv main bin && ./bin/main
2016/02/17 20:37:14 [main/config.go:36] Reading config file in /home/clinyong/workfile/student-card/conf/default.toml...
[Macaron] listening on 0.0.0.0:8181 (development)

Then I modified routers.go

package main

func initRouters() {
    m.Get("/hello", func() string {
        return "hello"
    })
}

But fswatch didn't trigger the command. My go version is go version go1.5.2 linux/amd64.

Hope you can help me to fix it, thanks.

help

fswatch . 'go build && ./app'

god I miss that command

使用 sudo的时候会提示sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified
但是我又不想免密 请问如何解决啊

Hi there,
I don't know if it's possible to run one fswatch session to have multiple actions based on a set of filetypes. For example:

(sass|scss) : sass ...
(jade) : jade ..
(cc): gcc ...

thanks for the nice tool :)

Why killSignal cannot be configured using .fsw.yml and it is being forced to SIGKILL?