arbor-watcher

File watcher for Arbor
Real-time incremental indexing

Overview

arbor-watcher provides the file system watching and incremental indexing layer for Arbor.

Features

• Cross-platform: Uses notify for Windows, macOS, and Linux
• Debounced Events: Prevents rapid re-indexing (100ms threshold)
• Gitignore Aware: Respects .gitignore patterns via ignore crate
• Incremental: Only re-parses changed files

How It Works

File Change → notify → Debouncer → Index Queue → arbor-core → arbor-graph
                                       ↓
                              Only "dirty" nodes updated

Usage

This crate is used internally. For most use cases:

cargo install arbor-graph-cli
arbor setup
arbor watch  # Live re-indexing

Links

• Main Repository: github.com/Anandb71/arbor