watchman for chromium (unsuccessful) attempt.

cron/every-hour.sh

@@ -19,3 +19,19 @@ cd "$HOME/code/pristine/devtools-protocol/scripts" && ./update-n-publish-docs.sh
 # https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/devtools-frontend
 cd "$HOME/code/npm-publish-devtools-frontend" && ./update-github-mirror.sh
 
+
+# this was an attempt but it failed.
+# i tried to make the chromium watch faster, but this just hangs there for a WHILE and doesnt return. dunno why its different running in the hook...
+
+nstime=$(gdate +%s)
+git_work_tree="/Users/paulirish/chromium/src"
+
+read -r -d '' watchargs << EOM
+	["query", "$git_work_tree", { \
+		"since": $nstime,\
+		"fields": ["name"],\
+		"expression": ["not", ["allof", ["since", $nstime, "cclock"], ["not", "exists"]]]
+	}]
+EOM
+
+watchman -j $watchargs

setup-a-new-machine.sh

@@ -230,13 +230,12 @@ git config status.showuntrackedfiles no
 git update-index --untracked-cache
 
 
-# !! EHHH. to be honest i tried this and it seems to be slow me down. 
 # use watchman with git 2.17 for src changes
 # https://blog.github.com/2018-04-05-git-217-released/#speeding-up-status-with-watchman
-#    brew install watchman
-#    cd ~/chromium/src
-#    curl -o .git/hooks/query-watchman https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/templates/hooks--fsmonitor-watchman.sample
-#    git config core.fsmonitor .git/hooks/query-watchman
+   brew install watchman
+   cd ~/chromium/src
+   curl -o .git/hooks/query-watchman https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/templates/hooks--fsmonitor-watchman.sample
+   git config core.fsmonitor .git/hooks/query-watchman
 
 # also this unrelated thing
 git config user.email "[email protected]"