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How can I get the user whom changed a file with a watchman trigger?

When using the watchman trigger functionality does anyone know how to get the name of the user responsible for the trigger?

What I am trying to do, is to version data files automatically to a local git. For this I am watching a folder and executing a trigger whenever a file is changed (added, deleted or modified). This triggers a script which then performs a git add and git commit.

What I did:

watchman watch /data
watchman -- trigger /data git-commit '*' -- sh git_commit.sh

However that performs all commits in my name instead of the user who performed the change.

Solution

  • It seems, this cannot be done in watchman directly. The plan now is to use auditctl for this.