Recursive flag does not watch files in subdirectories

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Recursive flag does not watch files in subdirectories

sspreitzer opened this issue 6 years ago · 4 comments

Hi all

As far as i understand from the code, the :recursive flag does not watch files in subdirectories, but only directories.

Is this a bug or intended?

Answer 1 · 2018-12-15T23:10:29.000Z

What do you think makes the most sense?

Answer 2 · 2019-07-19T20:31:20.000Z

any updates for this issue?

Answer 3 · 2019-07-19T21:16:24.000Z

I guess we don’t know what the desired behaviour is yet, but watching all subdirectories might make sense or might be performance issue.

Answer 4 · 2020-03-28T17:12:03.000Z

Since the notifier can only watch one file at a time, which for me is a serious limitation, I also think that at least the :recursive flag might be used as a (bad) workaround for that.