watchman
brew install watchmanWatch files and take action when they change
https://facebook.github.io/watchman/
License: MIT
Development: Pull requests
Formula JSON API: /api/formula/watchman.json
Formula code: watchman.rb on GitHub
Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:
| macOS on Apple Silicon |
golden gate | ✅ |
|---|---|---|
| tahoe | ✅ | |
| sequoia | ✅ | |
| Linux | ARM64 | ✅ |
| x86_64 | ✅ |
Current versions:
| stable | ✅ | 2026.10.26.00 |
| head | ⚡️ | HEAD |
Patches:
| https://github.com/facebook/watchman/commit/21e10ae9596a81ac95795ee0915f4308a9c34603 |
Depends on:
| edencommon | 2026.10.26.00 | Shared library for Watchman and Eden projects |
| fb303 | 2026.10.26.00 | Thrift functions for querying information from a service |
| fbthrift | 2026.10.26.00 | Facebook's branch of Apache Thrift, including a new C++ server |
| fmt | 12.2.1 | Open-source formatting library for C++ |
| folly | 2026.10.26.00 | Collection of reusable C++ library artifacts developed at Facebook |
| glog | 0.7.1 | Application-level logging library |
| pcre2 | 10.49 | Perl compatible regular expressions library with a new API |
| python@3.15 | 3.15.2 | Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language |
Depends on when building from source:
| cmake | 4.4.5 | Cross-platform make |
| cpptoml | 0.1.1 | Header-only library for parsing TOML |
| gflags | 2.3.1 | Library for processing command-line flags |
| googletest | 1.18.0 | Google Testing and Mocking Framework |
| libevent | 2.1.13 | Asynchronous event library |
| mvfst | 2026.10.26.00 | QUIC transport protocol implementation |
| openssl@4 | 4.1.0 | Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit |
| pkgconf | 3.0.10 | Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit |
| python-setuptools | 84.2.1 | Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages |
| rust | 1.99.1 | Safe, concurrent, practical language |
Binaries:
watchman,
watchman-diag,
watchman-make,
watchman-replicate-subscription,
watchman-wait,
watchmanctl
GitHub Packages downloads:
| Last 30 days | 116,070 |
|---|---|
| Downloads | 14,176,793 |
| Analytics install events (30 days) | 15,266 |
| Downloads / install events (30 days) | 7.6× |
Source: GitHub Packages, fetched 2026-11-10T00:48:53Z. Analytics dates: 2026-10-11 to 2026-11-10. Totals exclude downloads from Bintray before the migration to GitHub Packages. Downloads and install attempts measure different things; the difference does not count analytics opt-outs. Definitions and limitations.
Analytics:
| 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Installs | 15,224 | 38,275 | 237,298 |
Installs (--HEAD) | 42 | 90 | 537 |
| Installs on Request | 15,204 | 38,221 | 236,912 |
Installs on Request (--HEAD) | 42 | 90 | 529 |
| Build Errors | 651 | ||
Build Errors (--HEAD) | 1 |