shutdown-server shows incorrect version number

[rmaz]

watchman --version outputs 4.7.0, watchman shutdown-server outputs:

{
    "version": "4.6.0",
    "shutdown-server": true
}

not an earth shaker admittedly.

[wez]

That just means that the running version of the watchman server was 4.6.0 and you had a newer client binary installed. The --version flag shows the version of the watchman.exe that you're running, whereas the json output from various commands shows the server version.

If watchman version doesn't agree with watchman --version it means that you should run watchman shutdown-server ; watchman version to re-launch the watchman server.

[rmaz]

Interesting. If I try watchman shutdown-server ; watchman version I get:

{
    "version": "4.6.0",
    "shutdown-server": true
}
{
    "version": "4.6.0"
}

But watchman --version gives 4.7.0. Explicitly killing the process has the same effect.

[wez]

Are you on a mac using homebrew? You may be experiencing something like this issue: #358

[rmaz]

Yes and yes, launchctl unload -F ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.github.facebook.watchman.plist does the trick.