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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-11-21 14:07:50 +0900
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Merge branch 'bp/fsmonitor'
We learned to talk to watchman to speed up "git status" and other operations that need to see which paths have been modified. * bp/fsmonitor: fsmonitor: preserve utf8 filenames in fsmonitor-watchman log fsmonitor: read entirety of watchman output fsmonitor: MINGW support for watchman integration fsmonitor: add a performance test fsmonitor: add a sample integration script for Watchman fsmonitor: add test cases for fsmonitor extension split-index: disable the fsmonitor extension when running the split index test fsmonitor: add a test tool to dump the index extension update-index: add fsmonitor support to update-index ls-files: Add support in ls-files to display the fsmonitor valid bit fsmonitor: add documentation for the fsmonitor extension. fsmonitor: teach git to optionally utilize a file system monitor to speed up detecting new or changed files. update-index: add a new --force-write-index option preload-index: add override to enable testing preload-index bswap: add 64 bit endianness helper get_be64
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@@ -295,3 +295,22 @@ The remaining data of each directory block is grouped by type:
in the previous ewah bitmap.
- One NUL.
+
+== File System Monitor cache
+
+ The file system monitor cache tracks files for which the core.fsmonitor
+ hook has told us about changes. The signature for this extension is
+ { 'F', 'S', 'M', 'N' }.
+
+ The extension starts with
+
+ - 32-bit version number: the current supported version is 1.
+
+ - 64-bit time: the extension data reflects all changes through the given
+ time which is stored as the nanoseconds elapsed since midnight,
+ January 1, 1970.
+
+ - 32-bit bitmap size: the size of the CE_FSMONITOR_VALID bitmap.
+
+ - An ewah bitmap, the n-th bit indicates whether the n-th index entry
+ is not CE_FSMONITOR_VALID.