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= Inotify Extension =

''Authors: Bryan O'Sullivan, Nicolas Dumazet''

'''This extension has been included with Mercurial since version 1.0'''

'''[[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.mercurial.general/12475|It definitely has to be considered experimental]]''', see also InotifyBug.
== Overview ==

This extension makes status requests instantaneous for even very large repositories, by subscribing to the paths in the repository instead of having to check them all at every status command.

Inotify is currently a Linux-only extension, using the Linux 2.6 inotify API.

An alpha Mac OS port is now available: it uses the MacOS 10.5 FSEvents API through the [[http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyfsevents|pyfsevents]] module. It can be tested by ''qcloning'' [[http://bitbucket.org/nicdumz/mercurial-crew-mq/|Nicolas's MQ]] (''hg qclone [url]; hg qpush -a'')

== Installation and configuration ==

To enable it, edit your hgrc:

{{{
[extensions]
inotify =
}}}

You can either enable it for each individual repository you need it in, or globally.

The extension contains both a server and a client component. By default, it will start automatically. To prevent this, edit either your global ~/.hgrc or .hg/hgrc in repositories where you don't want to use inotify:

{{{
[inotify]
autostart = False
}}}

The server runs in the background as a daemon when started automatically. To start it manually, use the command:

{{{
$ hg inserve [-d]
}}}

By default, the server output will be lost. You can use the ''log'' option to capture the server output:

{{{
[inotify]
log = '/tmp/inotify.log'
}}}


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InotifyExtension (last edited 2014-03-24 01:53:35 by Rain)