watchman
Install command:
brew install watchmanWatch 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 |
tahoe | ✅ |
|---|---|---|
| sequoia | ✅ | |
| sonoma | ✅ | |
| macOS on Intel |
sonoma | ✅ |
| Linux | ARM64 | ✅ |
| x86_64 | ✅ | |
Current versions:
| stable | ✅ | 2025.11.10.00 |
| head | ⚡️ | HEAD |
Depends on:
| edencommon | 2025.11.10.00 | Shared library for Watchman and Eden projects |
| fb303 | 2025.11.10.00 | Thrift functions for querying information from a service |
| fbthrift | 2025.11.10.00 | Facebook's branch of Apache Thrift, including a new C++ server |
| fmt | 12.1.0 | Open-source formatting library for C++ |
| folly | 2025.11.10.00 | 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 | 3.6.0 | Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit |
| pcre2 | 10.47 | Perl compatible regular expressions library with a new API |
| python@3.14 | 3.14.0 | Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language |
Depends on when building from source:
| cmake | 4.1.2 | Cross-platform make |
| cpptoml | 0.1.1 | Header-only library for parsing TOML |
| googletest | 1.17.0 | Google Testing and Mocking Framework |
| mvfst | 2025.11.10.00 | QUIC transport protocol implementation |
| pkgconf | 2.5.1 | Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit |
| python-setuptools | 80.9.0 | Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages |
| rust | 1.91.0 | Safe, concurrent, practical language |
Analytics:
| Installs (30 days) | |
|---|---|
watchman |
32,646 |
watchman --HEAD |
89 |
| Installs on Request (30 days) | |
watchman |
32,613 |
watchman --HEAD |
89 |
| Build Errors (30 days) | |
watchman |
20 |
watchman --HEAD |
19 |
| Installs (90 days) | |
watchman |
91,776 |
watchman --HEAD |
363 |
| Installs on Request (90 days) | |
watchman |
91,724 |
watchman --HEAD |
362 |
| Installs (365 days) | |
watchman |
485,265 |
watchman --HEAD |
1,678 |
| Installs on Request (365 days) | |
watchman |
485,023 |
watchman --HEAD |
1,671 |