comparison to built-in git fsmonitor?

[colemickens]

Hi,

I've been using this for some years now, and am surprised that there aren't more references to this across the Internet. I'm wondering if that's because the default fsmonitor is "good enough"?

Out of curiosity, has anyone benchmarked this fsmonitor hook implementation versus the built-in default fsmonitor?

[SuperSandro2000]

The default file monitor is only available on mac and windows, not linux. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-corefsmonitor:~:text=The%20built%2Din%20file%20system%20monitor%20is%20currently%20available%20only%20on%20a%20limited%20set%20of%20supported%20platforms.%20Currently%2C%20this%20includes%20Windows%20and%20MacOS.

[colemickens]

Huh, I guess I got the wrong impression from a random mailing list thread I'd found about a linux implementation.

This does make me even more curious that this repo doesn't see more stars. Maybe folks are just very happily, quietly using it.

It's hard for me to know how much untracked-cache, this fsmonitor impl, and ZFS affect things, but I'm definitely a happy user. Thank you to @jgavris for this.