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Inotify Extension
This extension is not distributed with Mercurial.
Author: Bryan O'Sullivan
Download site: [http://hg.kublai.com/mercurial/patches/inotify]
It is not yet a standalone extension. You will have to apply the patch queue to a mercurial tree and use that version of mercurial. A recent version of crew with the patches applied may be found here: [http://hg.kublai.com/mercurial/inotify]
It also requires Bryan's [http://hg.kublai.com/python/inotify python bindings for inotify].
Overview
This extension uses the linux 2.6 inotify API to make status instantaneous for even very large repositories, by subscribing to the paths in the repository instead of having to check them all at every status command.
Configuration
Configure your .hgrc to enable the extension by adding following lines:
[extensions] inotify=/path/to/inotify
You can either start up the inotify extension on a repository with hg inserve or have it autostart with the following .hgrc snippet (either global or in the repository .hg/hgrc in which you would like to use inotify:
[inotify] autostart = true