watchman

Install command:
brew install watchman

Watch files and take action when they change

https://github.com/facebook/watchman

License: MIT

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/watchman.json

Formula code: watchman.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
sequoia
sonoma
ventura
macOS on
Intel
sonoma
ventura
Linux ARM64
x86_64

Current versions:

stable 2025.05.26.00
head ⚡️ HEAD

Depends on:

edencommon 2025.05.26.00 Shared library for Watchman and Eden projects
fb303 2025.05.26.00 Thrift functions for querying information from a service
fbthrift 2025.05.26.00 Facebook's branch of Apache Thrift, including a new C++ server
fmt 11.2.0 Open-source formatting library for C++
folly 2025.05.26.00 Collection of reusable C++ library artifacts developed at Facebook
gflags 2.2.2 Library for processing command-line flags
glog 0.6.0 Application-level logging library
libevent 2.1.12 Asynchronous event library
openssl@3 3.5.0 Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit
pcre2 10.45 Perl compatible regular expressions library with a new API
python@3.13 3.13.4 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language

Depends on when building from source:

cmake 4.0.2 Cross-platform make
cpptoml 0.1.1 Header-only library for parsing TOML
googletest 1.17.0 Google Testing and Mocking Framework
mvfst 2025.05.26.00 QUIC transport protocol implementation
pkgconf 2.4.3 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
python-setuptools 80.9.0 Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages
rust 1.87.0 Safe, concurrent, practical language

Analytics:

Installs (30 days)
watchman 46,039
watchman --HEAD 120
Installs on Request (30 days)
watchman 46,007
watchman --HEAD 120
Build Errors (30 days)
watchman --HEAD 48
watchman 15
Installs (90 days)
watchman 135,841
watchman --HEAD 382
Installs on Request (90 days)
watchman 135,759
watchman --HEAD 382
Installs (365 days)
watchman 570,543
watchman --HEAD 1,985
Installs on Request (365 days)
watchman 570,242
watchman --HEAD 1,978
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