Some commands (status, commit) take forever

[turfaa]

Hi!

I really appreciate you open sourcing this project! I've been using sapling for some times. However, I occasionally run into this frustrating issue 🙁

Setup

• OS: macOS Sequoia 15.5
• Sapling version: Sapling 0.2.20250521-115337-25ed6ac4 (installed via homebrew)
• Watchman version: 2025.07.28.00 (installed via homebrew)
• Repository mode: .sl mode

Problem

Sometimes, some commands take soooo long. The commands include:

• sl status
• sl commit

These commands are not affected:

• sl
• sl log
• sl web -- however, the UI cannot show uncommitted changes and shows the spinner instead until the sl command exits with code 130

I have enabled ui.debug.

1. When running sl status, there was no debug message.
2. When running sl commit ..., there was this debug message:

   watchman sockpath is set as /opt/facebook/watchman/var/run/watchman/turfa-state/sock
   

When the problem happens, running sl status or sl commit ... can take more than 15 minutes even with only one line code change. I usually just Ctrl+C the command, restart my machine, and hope that the next run will not fail.

Please let me know if you need more information.

[turfaa]

This is the error shown in the web UI:

Failed to fetch Uncommitted Changes
Command `/opt/homebrew/bin/sl "status" "-Tjson" "--copies"…` exited with non-zero status with exit code 130
Error: Command `/opt/homebrew/bin/sl "status" "-Tjson" "--copies"…` exited with non-zero status with exit code 130
    at Qo (/Users/turfa/Library/Application Support/Sapling/ISL/isl-server/dist/server-DXUZru8e.js:1:147337)
    at /Users/turfa/Library/Application Support/Sapling/ISL/isl-server/dist/server-DXUZru8e.js:1:128687
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)

[turfaa]

This problem went away after I uninstalled watchman.

So I'm not sure if the problem is in watchman or the integration between watchman and sapling.