my use case: I have a postgres docker container which mounts its data folder from a (git ignored) ./tmp/db directory. This folder is apparently looked into by clojure-lsp since it mentions some errors due to permissions

You can tell to not watch a folder, but not sure that is what you want, do you have a example?

again, ./tmp/db contains data that should not be watched as it's irrelevant (and in my case it contains bajillion bytes worth of test data)

Hum, not sure it's possible, but it'd be necessary something on client side to ignore that as server only accept files sent by client

Assuming you're in emacs, maybe lsp-enable-file-watchers nil will help?

Yes, or just set file watch ignore to match /tmp/data @U051T4Q05

but why is lsp even watching that directory, it doesn't belong to a project, right?

Yes, unless the project root is wrong

That has happened to me a lot of times with /tmp/

Probably you had /tmp as project root right?

yes

Yeah, I suggest never import /tmp as root, but a specific folder like: /tmp/clojure

Nothing is more permanent than setting /tmp as the root...

sorry, just out of a 3h long meeting

I'll try to set the ./tmp/ folder to be ignored by the watchers tnx

(note: not /tmp but ./tmp -- the 👿 is in the detail)

aaaah

@U051T4Q05 lsp-mode allows you declare regex to ignore some patterns, check lsp-file-watch-ignored-directories

https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/page/file-watchers/#file-watchers

I haven't enabled watchers at all and I don't feel like I'm missing out (except performance problems)

yes, watchers are good if you change branches a lot or have any other process that may change files outside of editor/lsp