More information about watcher

[kogeletey]

Hi again! Coult you tell me more details about watch actions?
I seem to have turned on watcher and added actions watch to pipelines, but nothihg happens

[pipelight]

Hi!
You need to explicitly enable the file watcher in your project root directory.

https://pipelight.dev/guide/triggers/definition.html#enable-file-watcher-optional

pipelight enable watcher

This will spawn a pipelight instance that watches your directory.

You may want to ignore some files by creating a .pipelight_ignore file.

[kogeletey]

Yes, I did that. But it just doesn't work.
This is what is specified in the configuration

[[pipelines.triggers]]
actions = ["watch"]

[kogeletey]

By the way, options in toml don't work either
Here is my config - https://github.com/kogeletey/karzok/blob/70523714aa847d6d4413cb11b67a1ed0623ac251/pipelight.toml

[pipelight]

Okay thanks for the context!
I am troubleshooting this issue and will come back to you ASAP!

[pipelight]

Concerning the watcher.
I will need your point of view on the first bug encountered.

I ran the following commands

pipelight watch --attach

pipelight watch --attach -uu

The watcher refuses to start without a .pipelight_ignore file in the project root.

Why?:
I initially wanted to let the user decide which file should be watched without any restriction.
Which means, on rare cases, one can watch the .git directory and build directories if needed.
But watching those path can cause a watch infinite recursion.
Thus the need of an initial .ignore file.

The fixes:

• either create a default .pipelight_ignore file with pipelight init command.
• or remove the need of an initial .pipelight_ignore file by hardcoding unrecommended path depending on the project type (autodetected).

Which fix sounds better?

[kogeletey]

I caught another interesting bug.
2024-01-26 17-16-04.webm

Thanks for the clarification, I think it would be better to be able to configure which folder or files to specifically view.
And by default creating a file with ignore would be nice.

[pipelight]

This might take longer than expected. I must make some integration test and documentation!

[pipelight]

fixed on dev. i need to tidy before merging to master