History.md

History

• v2.3.10 April 1, 2013

  • Dependency upgrades

• v2.3.9 March 17, 2013

  • Made it so if duplicateDelay is falsey we will not do a duplicate check

• v2.3.8 March 17, 2013

  • Fix Object #<Object> has no method 'emit' error
    • Thanks to Casey Foster for pull request #32

• v2.3.7 February 6, 2013

  • Changed the preferredMethod option into preferredMethods which accepts an array, defaults to ['watch','watchFile']
  • If the watch action fails at the eve level we will try again with the preferredMethods reversed
    • This solves issue #31 where watching of large files would fail
  • Changed the interval option to default to 5007 (recommended by node) instead of 100 as it was before
    • The watch method provides us with immediate notification of changes without utilising polling, however the watch method fails for large amounts of files, in which case we will fall back to the watchFile method that will use this option, if the option is too small we will be constantly polling the large amount of files for changes using up all the CPU and memory, hence the change into a larger increment which has no CPU and memory impact.

• v2.3.6 February 6, 2013

  • Fixed fallback when preferredMethod is watchFile

• v2.3.5 February 6, 2013

  • Fixed uncaught exceptions when intialising watchers under certain circumstances

• v2.3.4 February 5, 2013

  • Better handling and detection of failed watching operations
  • Better handling of duplicated events
  • Watching is now an atomic operation
    • If watching fails for a descendant, we will close everything related to that watch operation of the eve
  • We now prefer the watch method over the watchFile method
    • This offers great reliability and way less CPU and memory foot print
    • If you still wish to prefer watchFile, then set the new configuration option preferredMethod to watchFile
  • Closes issue #30 thanks to Howard Tyson

• v2.3.3 January 8, 2013

  • Added outputLog option
  • Added ignorePaths option
    • Thanks to Tane Piper for issue #24
  • Now properly ignores hidden files
    • Thanks to Ting-yu (Joseph) Chiang for issue #25 and Julien M. for issue #28
  • Added Watcher::isIgnoredPath method
  • Added tests for ignored and hidden files

• v2.3.2 January 6, 2013

  • Fixed closing when a child path watcher doesn't exist
    • Closes pull request #26 thanks to Jason Als
  • Added close tests

• v2.3.1 December 19, 2012

  • Fixed a bug with closing directories that have children
    • Thanks to Casey Foster for issue #23

• v2.3.0 December 17, 2012

  • This is a backwards compatiblity break, however updating is easy, read the notes below.
  • We've updated the events we emit to be:
    • log for debugging, receives the arguments logLevel ,args...
    • watching for when watching of the path has completed, receives the arguments err, isWatching
    • change for listening to change events, receives the arguments changeType, fullPath, currentStat, previousStat
    • error for gracefully listening to error events, receives the arguments err
    • read the README to learn how to bind to these new events
  • The changeType argument for change listeners has been changed for better clarity and consitency:
    • change is now update
    • new is now create
    • unlink is now delete
  • We've updated the return arguments for require('watchr').watch for better consitency:
    • if you send the paths option, you will receive the arguments err, results where results is an array of watcher instances
    • if you send the path option, you receive the arguments err, watcherInstance

• v2.2.1 December 16, 2012

  • Fixed sub directory scans ignoring our ignore patterns
  • Updated dependencies
    • bal-util from 1.15.x to ~1.15.2

• v2.2.0 December 15, 2012

  • We now ignore common ignore patterns by default
  • ignorePatterns configuration option renamed to ignoreCommonPatterns
  • Added new ignoreCustomPatterns configuration option
  • Updated dependencies
    • bal-util from 1.13.x to 1.15.x
  • Closes issue #22 and issue #21
    • Thanks Andrew Petersen, Sascha Depold, Raynos, and Prajwalit for your help!

• v2.1.6 November 6, 2012

  • Added missing bin configuration
    • Fixes #16 thanks to pull request #17 by Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto

• v2.1.5 September 29, 2012

  • Fixed completion callback not firing when trying to watch a path that doesn't exist

• v2.1.4 September 27, 2012

  • Fixed new listeners not being added for directories that have already been watched
  • Fixed completion callbacks happening too soon
  • Thanks to pull request #14 by Casey Foster

• v2.1.3 August 10, 2012

  • Re-added markdown files to npm distribution as they are required for the npm website

• v2.1.2 July 7, 2012

  • Fixed spelling of persistent
  • Explicitly set the defaults for the options ignoreHiddenFiles and ignorePatterns

• v2.1.1 July 7, 2012

  • Added support for interval and persistant options
  • Improved unlink detection
  • Optimised unlink handling

• v2.1.0 June 22, 2012

  • watchr.watchr changes
    • now only accepts one argument which is an object
    • added new paths property which is an array of multiple paths to watch
    • will only watch paths that actually exist (before it use to throw an error)
  • Fixed a few bugs
  • Added support for node v0.7/v0.8
  • Moved tests from Mocha to Joe

• v2.0.3 April 19, 2012

  • Fixed a bug with closing watchers
  • Now requires pre-compiled code

• v2.0.0 April 19, 2012

  • Big rewrite
  • Got rid of the delay
  • Now always fires events
  • Watcher instsances inherit from Node's EventEmitter
  • Events for change, unlink and new

• v1.0.0 February 11, 2012

  • Better support for ignoring hidden files
  • Improved documentation, readme
  • Added History.md file
  • Added unit tests using Mocha

• v0.1.0 Nov 13, 2012

  • Initial working version