NAME

       git-fsmonitor--daemon - A Built-in File System Monitor

SYNOPSIS

       git fsmonitor--daemon start
       git fsmonitor--daemon run
       git fsmonitor--daemon stop
       git fsmonitor--daemon status

DESCRIPTION

       A daemon to watch the working directory for file and directory changes using
       platform-specific file system notification facilities.

       This daemon communicates directly with commands like git status using the simple IPC[1]
       interface instead of the slower githooks(5) interface.

       This daemon is built into Git so that no third-party tools are required.

OPTIONS

       start
           Starts a daemon in the background.

       run
           Runs a daemon in the foreground.

       stop
           Stops the daemon running in the current working directory, if present.

       status
           Exits with zero status if a daemon is watching the current working directory.

REMARKS

       This daemon is a long running process used to watch a single working directory and
       maintain a list of the recently changed files and directories. Performance of commands
       such as git status can be increased if they just ask for a summary of changes to the
       working directory and can avoid scanning the disk.

       When core.fsmonitor is set to true (see git-config(1)) commands, such as git status, will
       ask the daemon for changes and automatically start it (if necessary).

       For more information see the "File System Monitor" section in git-update-index(1).

CAVEATS

       The fsmonitor daemon does not currently know about submodules and does not know to filter
       out file system events that happen within a submodule. If fsmonitor daemon is watching a
       super repo and a file is modified within the working directory of a submodule, it will
       report the change (as happening against the super repo). However, the client will properly
       ignore these extra events, so performance may be affected but it will not cause an
       incorrect result.

GIT

       Part of the git(1) suite

NOTES

        1. simple IPC
           file:///usr/share/doc/git/html/technical/api-simple-ipc.html