Single-command install / depend on watchexec automatically

[passcod]

To make v5 installable properly using the normal cargo install cargo-watch, we probably need to figure out how to either:

• embed watchexec (preferred, as it will make sure we don't break if watchexec's interface changes)
• install watchexec as a dependency

[mattgreen]

This is an exciting development. If there's any way I can help please let me know.

[passcod]

This is now ready to release as soon as we watchexec's next release gets onto crates.io :)

[mattgreen]

This is up on crates.io now as 1.8.1.

One caveat: because watchexec is an app first and foremost, it will be hard to continue to evolve and guarantee I won't break semver via changes to to Args. Thus, in your shoes, I'd pin it to an exact version and bump it only as necessary. (I'm not looking to break the Args struct anytime soon, mind you.)

[passcod]

No problem :) I'll tighten the version specifier, the advantage of this method of embed is also that I *can* bind to versions tightly.

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[passcod]

Done in 5.0.0.

[mattgreen]

Note: you'll want to bump to watchexec 1.8.3 to avoid a dumb bug relating to file changes being triggered in .git dirs that 1.8.1 had.

[passcod]

Ah, that's not really an issue given I build my own Args — I'd already added .git ignoring — but ooops, I just noticed a bug/typo with that commit, so I'll fix that.

(Also, you can avoid repetition by using format!("*{s}.git{s}*", s=MAIN_SEPARATOR)