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avoid printing "Events were dropped by the FSEvents client" during watch #9678

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5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion scopes/workspace/watcher/watcher.ts
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Expand Up @@ -504,7 +504,10 @@ export class Watcher {
if (msgs?.onAll) events.forEach((event) => msgs.onAll(event.type, event.path));
}
if (err) {
msgs?.onError(err);
if (!err.message.includes('Events were dropped by the FSEvents client')) {
// the message above shows up too many times and it doesn't affect the watcher.
msgs?.onError(err);
}
if (err.message.includes('Error starting FSEvents stream')) {
throw new Error(`failed to start the watcher: ${err.message}.
try rerunning the command. if that doesn't help, please refer to this Watchman troubleshooting guide:
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