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Expand Up @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ Watchman provides 4 generators:
* **path**: generates a list of files based on their path and depth
* **all**: generates a list of all known files

Generators are analagous to the list of *paths* that you specify when using the
Generators are analogous to the list of *paths* that you specify when using the
`find(1)` utility, but are implemented in watchman with a bit of a twist
because watchman doesn't need to crawl the filesystem in realtime and instead
maintains a couple of indexes over the tree.
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##### empty

Evaluates as true if the file exists, has size is 0 and is a regular file or
Evaluates as true if the file exists, has size 0 and is a regular file or
directory.

"empty"
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Returns the current clock value for a watched root.

Be careful how you interpret this value; it return the instantaneous value of
Be careful how you interpret this value; it returns the instantaneous value of
the clock, and may have changed by the time you intend to act upon it.

```bash
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filesystem to become current. Watchman decides that the view is current by
creating a cookie file and waiting to observe the notification that it is
present. If the cookie is not observed within the sync_timeout period then the
query invocation will error out with a sychronization error message.
query invocation will error out with a synchronization error message.

If your synchronization requirements differ from the default, you may pass in
your desired timeout when you construct your query; it must be an integer value
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* **recommended for advanced users**: a clock id of the form `c:123:234`

The first and most obvious is passing a unix timestamp. Watchman records
the observed time that files change and allows you to find file that have
the observed time that files change and allows you to find files that have
changed since that time. Using a timestamp is prone to race conditions
in understanding the complete state of the file tree.

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