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+I had started a fresh repo to test out the watch command again on OSX and noticed that it's borked, I'm not sure when it was broken.
+
+The snippet of the log message and command is
+
+<pre>
+$ git annex watch --foreground -d -v
+watch . read: git ["--git-dir=/Users/jtang/sandbox/atest/.git","--work-tree=/Users/jtang/sandbox/atest","show-ref","git-annex"] 
+read: git ["--git-dir=/Users/jtang/sandbox/atest/.git","--work-tree=/Users/jtang/sandbox/atest","show-ref","--hash","refs/heads/git-annex"] 
+read: git ["--git-dir=/Users/jtang/sandbox/atest/.git","--work-tree=/Users/jtang/sandbox/atest","log","refs/heads/git-annex..6702e5361146450800ae5af0b63e97bd9c55d70b","--oneline","-n1"] 
+chat: git ["--git-dir=/Users/jtang/sandbox/atest/.git","--work-tree=/Users/jtang/sandbox/atest","cat-file","--batch"] 
+(scanning...) call: git ["--git-dir=/Users/jtan
+</pre>
+
+I had run git-annex with a new repo with just doing a git init and git annex init, I just threw in one or two small text files to see if it was working. It just hangs and does nothing. I had also tried it out on one of my bigger repos and it does the same thing it just hangs at _(scanning...)_ There isn't much to go on, I wonder if it's hitting the [[Issue on OSX with some system limits]] or if its just a thread/fork issue on OSX.
+
+It still hangs on the small repo even if I do
+
+    $ sudo sysctl -w kern.maxfilesperproc=400000
+    $ ulimit -n 2000
+
+Also, just in case if you need it still (on a clean OSX 10.7 system)
+
+<pre>
+$ ulimit -a
+core file size          (blocks, -c) 0
+data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
+file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
+max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) unlimited
+max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
+open files                      (-n) 256
+pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 1
+stack size              (kbytes, -s) 8192
+cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
+max user processes              (-u) 709
+virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited
+</pre>
+
+Please close or merge this report if it's a duplicate.
+
+> I've fixed this, it works in my (so far limited) tests. [[done]]
+> --[[Joey]]