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Diffstat (limited to 'git-fsmonitor--daemon.txt')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/git-fsmonitor--daemon.txt b/git-fsmonitor--daemon.txt index 8238eadb0..8585d19f4 100644 --- a/git-fsmonitor--daemon.txt +++ b/git-fsmonitor--daemon.txt @@ -70,10 +70,10 @@ the change (as happening against the super repo). However, the client will properly ignore these extra events, so performance may be affected but it will not cause an incorrect result. -By default, the fsmonitor daemon refuses to work against network-mounted +By default, the fsmonitor daemon refuses to work with network-mounted repositories; this may be overridden by setting `fsmonitor.allowRemote` to `true`. Note, however, that the fsmonitor daemon is not guaranteed to work -correctly with all network-mounted repositories and such use is considered +correctly with all network-mounted repositories, so such use is considered experimental. On Mac OS, the inter-process communication (IPC) between various Git @@ -83,10 +83,10 @@ but not on network-mounted filesystems, NTFS, or FAT32. Other filesystems may or may not have the needed support; the fsmonitor daemon is not guaranteed to work with these filesystems and such use is considered experimental. -By default, the socket is created in the `.git` directory, however, if the -`.git` directory is on a network-mounted filesystem, it will be instead be +By default, the socket is created in the `.git` directory. However, if the +`.git` directory is on a network-mounted filesystem, it will instead be created at `$HOME/.git-fsmonitor-*` unless `$HOME` itself is on a -network-mounted filesystem in which case you must set the configuration +network-mounted filesystem, in which case you must set the configuration variable `fsmonitor.socketDir` to the path of a directory on a Mac OS native filesystem in which to create the socket file. |