zola serve not reloading when config.toml is changed

[Raymi306]

Bug Report

zola serve does not detect changes to config.toml, but says it should

Environment

Linux Zola version: 0.17.2

Expected Behavior

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If config.toml gets written to, zola serve should reload

Current Behavior

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Nothing happens

Step to reproduce

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zola init
zola serve
vi config.toml
# edit a variable and save

[Keats]

Hm i've just tested locally and it works for me on Mac? Might be a OS specific issue

[Raymi306]

I just retested this on master and next builds, it looks like touch triggers the reload but editing and saving in vi is not for me? I'm gonna poke around some more.

[Raymi306]

Specifically I am using nvim. I added a println! to the front of the match for watcher events and to the fallthrough _ branch. The first time I open and save a file with zola serve running, I get:

NoticeRemove("/home/.../config.toml")

Afterwards, touch fails to trigger a reload and saves in nvim and touches don't even register in the match handler...

[Raymi306]

https://github.com/notify-rs/notify/issues/247

[alkeryn]

hey this may be a necrobump, but for vim users if you do : :set nobackup nowritebackup that solves the issue, i know i had a similar issue with another software but i don't remember which, the culprit is that vim replaces the original file with a new one without that option and so a rust library that is used to track the file stop tracking it.

[Keats]

Can you try https://github.com/getzola/zola/pull/2269 as well without those options changed?

[iamorphen]

I took a crack at it in https://github.com/getzola/zola/pull/2498 .