facebook/watchman

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

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Indexed issues: 222

Dominant language: C++
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 15, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 15, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
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222 open issues indexed

[Feature Request] help command in watchman sub command Open

facebook/watchman#739 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Hello, may I use regular expressions to ignore files or directories Open

facebook/watchman#744 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Add a guide/walkthrough document Open

facebook/watchman#753 · 2 comments · 4 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
watchman-make should support ignoring some patterns Open

facebook/watchman#769 · 0 comments · 5 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
a subscribe cmd in centos terminal doesn't work Open

facebook/watchman#800 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Basic build issue and tutorials mission issue Open

facebook/watchman#802 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Test suite failures on childproc.t and art.t Open

facebook/watchman#811 · 8 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Change default statedir base to /run Open

facebook/watchman#817 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
[WINDOWS] Watchman can"t correctly find directory Open

facebook/watchman#818 · 3 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
tests/integration/cppclient.cpp:114:12: error: ‘TimedOut’ does not name a type Open

facebook/watchman#825 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
[website] Where `[patterns]` appears add a link to the `Simple Pattern Syntax` page Open

facebook/watchman#826 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
watchman error please help me on ubuntu Open

facebook/watchman#827 · 3 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
watchman doesn't work on windows 7 again!! Open

facebook/watchman#830 · 10 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
[cli] unable to talk to your watchman on \\.\pipe\watchman! (No such file or directory) Open

facebook/watchman#832 · 8 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Version sub-command hangs on latest watchman release - macOS Open

facebook/watchman#839 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Run the target script on start-up Open

facebook/watchman#841 · 3 comments · 6 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
epid is used on systems where LOCAL_PEERCRED isn't defined Open

facebook/watchman#842 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Support for Centos and yum package manager Open

facebook/watchman#847 · 3 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Help me get the homebrew formula building again Open

facebook/watchman#851 · 16 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
autogen.sh fails to build Boost when the environment has pyconfig.h only for python3 but not for python2 Open

facebook/watchman#853 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
There is a vulnerability in com.google.guava:guava:19.0 ,upgrade recommended Open

facebook/watchman#857 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
[macOS] new hard link to file outside watched root not reported Open

facebook/watchman#858 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
[Fedora 31] pyconfig.h no such file or directory Open

facebook/watchman#863 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Failed to spawn watchman server; it exited with code 3 Open

facebook/watchman#864 · 14 comments · 3 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
In Docker: Django reloads for non project related 'changes' Open

facebook/watchman#865 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Unable to run Watchman after changing user home directory for a external drive Open

facebook/watchman#869 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Could we add a command that will print where the watchman log is being written Open

facebook/watchman#872 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
scm-aware saved state stuff is undocumented Open

facebook/watchman#873 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
watchman hang login for sometime after returning from sleep on Mac OS X Open

facebook/watchman#875 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel' Open

python

facebook/watchman#876 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
watchman doesn't work Open

facebook/watchman#877 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Not able to install watchman using brew in MacOs Open

community-support homebrew

facebook/watchman#883 · 5 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Old example given for build from source in watchman docs Open

facebook/watchman#889 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
fanotify support for Linux Open

facebook/watchman#891 · 1 comment · 10 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Document "?" file type Open

facebook/watchman#892 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Build fails on Arch Linux due to Boost related issue Open

community-support

facebook/watchman#894 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Add source tarball artifact to releases Open

facebook/watchman#900 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
How to configure metro to hot reload when source in node_modules/mypackage change? Open

facebook/watchman#907 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
pywatchman build does not make proper use of `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX` Open

facebook/watchman#913 · 0 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
EMFILE: too many open files, watch Open

facebook/watchman#923 · 82 comments · 58 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Watchman does not restart after restarting Centos server Open

facebook/watchman#924 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Customise launchd plist location on macOS Open

facebook/watchman#929 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
serde_bser test failures on s390x Open

community-support

facebook/watchman#932 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Watchman crawl failed. Open

facebook/watchman#947 · 0 comments · 5 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
`exec format error` when starting `watchman` Open

facebook/watchman#960 · 0 comments · 2 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Watchman uses wrong prefix for state directory Open

facebook/watchman#963 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
tcl_kadm5.c:6:10: fatal error: tcl.h: No such file or directory Open

facebook/watchman#965 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
pywatchman raises SystemError on Python 3.10 Open

facebook/watchman#970 · 26 comments · 23 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Compile release for arm64v8 Open

facebook/watchman#975 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026
Document content hash .watchmanconfig options Open

facebook/watchman#976 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 15, 2026

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