Cargo Watch 8.2.0

Release notes

Cargo Watch is a tool to watch your Cargo-based project and run commands when files change. It focuses on the Rust development experience and aims to be flexible enough to suit most without becoming complicated to use. Install or upgrade it today with cargo binstall cargo-watch, or cargo install cargo-watch if you don't have Binstall yet.

In this release:

Local dependencies are watched even when they fall outside of the current Cargo project. Disable with --skip-local-deps. (#117, #216)
-E, --env option to inject environment variables to the commands.
-L value is a shorthand for --env RUST_LOG=value.

Other changes:

MSRV bumped to 1.60.0.
Notifications are enabled on FreeBSD.
--clear falls back to a hardcoded escape sequence when a Terminfo database isn't available. (#218)
When using a trailing command (eg cargo watch -- command), the [Finished running] message won't be emitted. This is to offer a (temporary) workaround when using a shell that doesn't like the && joining that this message usually uses. See #203.
--no-gitignore is renamed to --no-vcs-ignores, but keeps the old name as an alias.
--no-ignore is renamed to --no-dot-ignores, for clarity, but keeps the old name as an alias.
The Binstall config for Windows has been fixed, and downloads our builds instead of QuickInstall's. (#199)

Packages

OS	Arch	Variant	Download
Linux	AArch64	glibc	DEB (1.4 MB)
			RPM (1.6 MB)
			XZ (1.4 MB)
	ARMv7 HF	glibc	DEB (1.5 MB)
			RPM (1.7 MB)
			XZ (1.5 MB)
	x86-64	glibc	DEB (1.1 MB)
			RPM (1.2 MB)
			XZ (1.1 MB)
		musl	DEB (1.2 MB)
			RPM (1.3 MB)
			XZ (1.2 MB)
Windows	AArch64	MSVC	Zip (781 KB)
Windows	x86-64	MSVC	Zip (855 KB)
macOS	AArch64		XZ (582 KB)
macOS	x86-64		XZ (694 KB)

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