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 2025.04.28.00
head ⚡️ HEAD

Depends on:

edencommon 2025.04.28.00 Shared library for Watchman and Eden projects
fb303 2025.04.28.00 Thrift functions for querying information from a service
fbthrift 2025.04.28.00 Facebook's branch of Apache Thrift, including a new C++ server
fmt 11.1.4 Open-source formatting library for C++
folly 2025.04.28.00 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 3.13.3 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language

Depends on when building from source:

cmake 4.0.1 Cross-platform make
cpptoml 0.1.1 Header-only library for parsing TOML
googletest 1.17.0 Google Testing and Mocking Framework
mvfst 2025.04.28.00 QUIC transport protocol implementation
pkgconf 2.4.3 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
python-setuptools 80.1.0 Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages
rust 1.86.0 Safe, concurrent, practical language

Analytics:

Installs (30 days)
watchman 46,079
watchman --HEAD 121
Installs on Request (30 days)
watchman 46,061
watchman --HEAD 121
Build Errors (30 days)
watchman --HEAD 23
watchman 11
Installs (90 days)
watchman 133,663
watchman --HEAD 410
Installs on Request (90 days)
watchman 133,604
watchman --HEAD 410
Installs (365 days)
watchman 561,344
watchman --HEAD 1,975
Installs on Request (365 days)
watchman 560,939
watchman --HEAD 1,968
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