7.6.0 — packaging and command style

• #97 We now support the cargo watch -- command... syntax style. That should make it a little more intuitive to those used to comparable unix tools.
• GNU builds on Windows have been dropped
• ARM v7 (hf) and v8 (aarch64) binaries are now available
• DEBs are now available for both amd64 gnu and musl (if that's useful in some way), and for ARM builds
• Builds are done on Github Actions (and are super fast! 🚀)
• MSRV has been bumped to 1.51.0 (not a breaking change as per policy)

7.5.1: meta changes

No code changes this release.

• 📦 You can now install from binary using cargo-binstall on Linux and macOS. Windows support will depend on binstall#37.
• 📜 For servers, the documentation now recommends systemfd over and above catflap.
• 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 The project now officially uses Caretaker Maintainership and a blurb about maintenance attitude had also been previously added last year. This may have implications for you, as a user, especially wrt supply chain issues. The commit message has more details.

7.5.0: features and logs

• Log format (debugs and warnings) changed as part of the upgrade to watchexec 1.14
• WATCHEXEC_* environment variables are not set for subprocesses anymore. I didn't actually intend to have them in the first place, but chime in if you rely on them!
• #152 New --features option to pass the --features flag to a selection of cargo commands that support them. E.g. cargo watch --features feat -x check -x test can now be used instead of cargo watch -x 'check --features feat' -x 'test --features feat'.
• Also fixes a bug where a polling message was shown even when --quiet was given.

7.4.1: bug in new gitignore code

• #149: if watched directory didn't contain a .git folder, thread would block (infinite loop)
• Also, #BlackLivesMatter. Closer to home, #ArmsDownNZ (police here wants to arm up, fuck that). Over the pond, #AboriginalLivesMatter. #JunkTerrorBill a bit further away, and spare a thought for Hong Kong, which has been fighting since March last year! I'm not comfortable stating that on Watchexec (which I also maintain and is released concurrently) given it's not, originally, my project, but here I can.

7.4.0: gitignores in subdirs

• #147 (pulling in watchexec 1.13): now gitignores in subdirs are also honoured
• #137: MSRV is documented now, as well as the versioning policy when bumping MSRV

v7.3.0: ignoring files and events

• Watchexec 1.12.0
• More documentation on ignore files (e4e13be)
• Bring in --no-ignore support from upstream (#133)
• Bring in --watch-when-idle support from upstream (329aa33)
• FYI: watchexec/watchexec#142 from upstream has improved --ignore handling!

v7.2.2: .ignore support

From upstream watchexec: .ignore files are now supported.

v7.2.1

v7.2.1

v7.2.0: crash on error, invocation without watch

• Fixed a crash on error due to an upstream bug.
• Allowed direct invocation without the watch argument, such that all these now do the same: (#114)

$ cargo watch
$ cargo-watch watch
$ cargo-watch # <== NEW!

v7.1.1: windows bugfix, and exit code there, too

• Fixed a bug on Windows where the wrong command separator was being used (#113)
• Added exit code to the finish message in windows, similar to unixes.