facebook/watchman

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Watches files and records, or triggers actions, when they change.

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Forks: 1.1k
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 222

Dominant language: C++
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 15, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 15, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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222 open issues indexed

blocked on reading when output is piped (line buffering?) Open

facebook/watchman#13 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Add log rotation support Open

facebook/watchman#58 · 10 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
[Feature Request] Symlink support Open

facebook/watchman#105 · 62 comments · 67 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
add polling watcher for small scale NFS and VM use cases Open

facebook/watchman#201 · 15 comments · 6 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
add do-not-watch configuration options Open

facebook/watchman#202 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Disambiguation of product names Open

facebook/watchman#205 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
check for filesystem boundaries and prevent recursion Open

enhancement

facebook/watchman#284 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Add symlink following to watchman query engine Open

enhancement

facebook/watchman#349 · 0 comments · 6 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Add global clock Open

enhancement

facebook/watchman#350 · 0 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Time Based Queries and Symlink Following Open

enhancement

facebook/watchman#351 · 0 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
CHANGELOG.md ? Open

facebook/watchman#429 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
[RFE] First trigger invocation lists all files, optionally turn this behavior off Open

facebook/watchman#440 · 9 comments · 2 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
triggers use JSON and yield errors when a trigger attempts to pass a non-unicode name through JSON Open

facebook/watchman#441 · 14 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Docs wrap under sidebar at 1024px Open

facebook/watchman#462 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Current versions of watchman+fsmonitor error out on Windows MSYS environment Open

windows

facebook/watchman#484 · 18 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
"error": "sync: creat(xxx) failed: Not a directory: not a directory" Open

facebook/watchman#501 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Distribute the PyWatchman in a wheel format Open

facebook/watchman#503 · 15 comments · 4 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Provide some documentation on how to compile watchman on Windows Open

facebook/watchman#506 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
[nodejs] cannot handle error when watchman is not installed Open

facebook/watchman#509 · 3 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
[Java] Any plans to publish the java lib to maven central? Open

facebook/watchman#518 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
`since` nav is incorrect Open

facebook/watchman#521 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Unable to build on Linux Mint 18.2 (Ubuntu 16.04) Open

facebook/watchman#528 · 7 comments · 3 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
watchman client libraries are required to make watch root paths canonical [documentation issue] Open

facebook/watchman#533 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Watchman hangs for ~2m when passed an inaccessible sockname path Open

facebook/watchman#543 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
watchman & fb-watchman - doc error, impl error, misunderstanding? Open

facebook/watchman#564 · 13 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
watchman-make only monitors current and below paths Open

facebook/watchman#569 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Specify the behavior of "subscribe" when the subscription name already exists Open

facebook/watchman#589 · 7 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Pywatchman documentation Open

facebook/watchman#598 · 0 comments · 10 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
make query and subscribe work with subdirectory of watched root Open

facebook/watchman#599 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
code execution cannot proceed because MSVCP140.dll was not found Open

facebook/watchman#604 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Include easier instructions for installing Watchman on Ubuntu Open

facebook/watchman#606 · 5 comments · 14 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
bug: subscription not canceled when its relative_root is renamed/deleted Open

facebook/watchman#610 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
How do I install Watchman on windows? Open

facebook/watchman#641 · 7 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Java bindings assume strings are utf-8 Open

facebook/watchman#643 · 5 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Freebsd ld linker failure Open

facebook/watchman#644 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
libssl-dev is called openssl-devel in fedora 28 Open

facebook/watchman#646 · 1 comment · 24 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
[Folly] Make fails for cpp client Open

facebook/watchman#652 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
watchman+fsmonitor cannot work in repository in junction of Windows Open

facebook/watchman#653 · 0 comments · 2 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
`"watchman" would like to access your contacts` when watching home dir on macOS Open

facebook/watchman#658 · 15 comments · 9 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
watchman-wait uses dict.iteritems() for python3 Open

facebook/watchman#660 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
[Windows] Error: Watchman error: RootResolveError: unable to resolve root Open

facebook/watchman#662 · 12 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Set settle on invocation Open

facebook/watchman#663 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Support modern hashes Open

facebook/watchman#667 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
watchman-make: provide multiple pattern-to-script mappings Open

facebook/watchman#688 · 0 comments · 4 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Race condition with triggers Open

facebook/watchman#703 · 3 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Trigger doesn't output events for root directory Open

facebook/watchman#704 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
ignore/exclude directory in watchlist not work Open

facebook/watchman#705 · 26 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
unable to talk to your watchman on /usr/local/var/run/watchman/jenkins-state/sock! (No such file or directory) Open

facebook/watchman#711 · 4 comments · 4 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Please add the option to eneble/disable python Open

facebook/watchman#714 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
IntelliJ plugin Watchman exceptions Open

facebook/watchman#732 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026

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