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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2020-02-14 12:54:20 -0800 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2020-02-14 12:54:20 -0800 |
commit | c9a33e5e5d7e124feb86ccff08ea466faff53b26 (patch) | |
tree | 8a451a494fd002caf274e8341f6e4fa83a74473c /Documentation/config | |
parent | Merge branch 'mt/threaded-grep-in-object-store' (diff) | |
parent | fsmonitor: update documentation for hook version and watchman hooks (diff) | |
download | tgif-c9a33e5e5d7e124feb86ccff08ea466faff53b26.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'kw/fsmonitor-watchman-racefix'
A new version of fsmonitor-watchman hook has been introduced, to
avoid races.
* kw/fsmonitor-watchman-racefix:
fsmonitor: update documentation for hook version and watchman hooks
fsmonitor: add fsmonitor hook scripts for version 2
fsmonitor: handle version 2 of the hooks that will use opaque token
fsmonitor: change last update timestamp on the index_state to opaque token
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/config')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/core.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config/core.txt b/Documentation/config/core.txt index 9e440b160d..74619a9c03 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/core.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/core.txt @@ -68,6 +68,17 @@ core.fsmonitor:: avoiding unnecessary processing of files that have not changed. See the "fsmonitor-watchman" section of linkgit:githooks[5]. +core.fsmonitorHookVersion:: + Sets the version of hook that is to be used when calling fsmonitor. + There are currently versions 1 and 2. When this is not set, + version 2 will be tried first and if it fails then version 1 + will be tried. Version 1 uses a timestamp as input to determine + which files have changes since that time but some monitors + like watchman have race conditions when used with a timestamp. + Version 2 uses an opaque string so that the monitor can return + something that can be used to determine what files have changed + without race conditions. + core.trustctime:: If false, the ctime differences between the index and the working tree are ignored; useful when the inode change time |