tapio / live-server

A simple development http server with live reload capability.
http://tapiov.net/live-server/
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live-server watching .git directory changes #419

Closed vit-the-jedi closed 10 months ago

vit-the-jedi commented 1 year ago
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Issue description

live-server is watching changes inside .git/objects - slowing my computer down as changes occur on every keystroke. Don't believe this was happening before.

some examples of the output in my terminal:

Change detected /Users/Matt/Documents/sites/c2c-library/.git/objects/76/b6767b05ab01f0a55c41279a9975ffe95a7c60 Change detected /Users/Matt/Documents/sites/c2c-library/.git/objects/76/ee8e7c31caf3550247b7ba9ddf13505c7b8784 Change detected /Users/Matt/Documents/sites/c2c-library/.git/objects/79/97ce834c1a2312314dabb219c2b8f68c2182c4 Change detected /Users/Matt/Documents/sites/c2c-library/.git/objects/79

Software details

vit-the-jedi commented 10 months ago

fix, while annoying, is to pass --ignore=/path/to/.git everytime you launch live-server