log feature logs inotify events about log file

[TLINDEN]

The --log feature can be used to generate some debugging output, which is very nice.

However, it also creates hundreds of thousands of lines per second like this:

[00:00:07.014] (741c68e006c0) INFO   File changed: "/home/scip/dev/play/gitu.log"
[00:00:07.014] (741c68e006c0) TRACE  inotify event: Event { wd: WatchDescriptor { id: 1, fd: (Weak) }, mask: MODIFY, cookie: 0, name: Some("gitu.log") }

So, it seems to what itself.

The logfile should not be monitored or exempted from logging.

best regards,
Tom

[TLINDEN]

I'm no rust guy, but I suspect this line: https://github.com/altsem/gitu/blob/master/src/file_watcher.rs#L31 checks if a watched file is part of the .gitignore file. But even if I put gitu.log into gitignore, these logs still appear.

[altsem]

Ah, that's horrible! I played around with the gitignore file but couldn't quite make sense of it and the file watcher.

However, I did hard-code it to always ignore the log-file, which does seem to work.
It seems the inotify lib was logging "Trace" logs regardless if a file was being watched, so bumped the log-level to "Debug".

Now there should be less spam, as well as a version 0.28.1! 🥳