jkorous added a comment. In D58418#1430160 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D58418#1430160>, @thakis wrote:
> Why is this needed for index-while-building? My mental model for > index-while-building is that that streams out build index metadata as part of > the regular compile. Why does that require watching directories? You're right that this isn't necessary for the indexing phase. But we also provide API so clients can consume the index. This functionality is used for getting notifications about index data changes. You can see it for example here: https://github.com/apple/swift-clang/blob/stable/lib/IndexDataStore/IndexDataStore.cpp#L111 CHANGES SINCE LAST ACTION https://reviews.llvm.org/D58418/new/ https://reviews.llvm.org/D58418 _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list cfe-commits@lists.llvm.org https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits
