From ad41fe876d119ed5df093bc11c9fe4c958303ea8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juergen Kunz <juergen@foss.global>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2025 08:30:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix(tswatch.classes.watcher): Convert directory watch paths
 to glob patterns for smartwatch compatibility

---
 changelog.md                  | 6 ++++++
 readme.hints.md               | 1 +
 ts/00_commitinfo_data.ts      | 2 +-
 ts/tswatch.classes.watcher.ts | 6 +++++-
 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index ff15eaf..6f29cd1 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 2025-12-04 - 2.2.3 - fix(tswatch.classes.watcher)
+Convert directory watch paths to glob patterns for smartwatch compatibility
+
+- Watcher: convert directory paths to recursive glob patterns before adding them to Smartwatch so directories are watched recursively (e.g. /path/to/dir/ -> /path/to/dir/**/*).
+- Readme: added migration note explaining that directory paths are converted to glob patterns for smartwatch compatibility.
+
 ## 2025-12-01 - 2.2.2 - fix(core)
 Replace smartchok/smartfile with smartwatch/smartfs, update watcher and plugins, and bump dependencies
 
diff --git a/readme.hints.md b/readme.hints.md
index 272ea32..c92b91a 100644
--- a/readme.hints.md
+++ b/readme.hints.md
@@ -48,3 +48,4 @@
 - Replaced `@push.rocks/smartchok` with `@push.rocks/smartwatch` (v5.x)
 - Replaced `@push.rocks/smartfile` with `@push.rocks/smartfs` for directory listing
 - Class names: `Smartwatch` for file watching, `SmartFs` + `SmartFsProviderNode` for filesystem ops
+- Directory paths are converted to glob patterns (`/path/to/dir/` → `/path/to/dir/**/*`) for smartwatch compatibility
diff --git a/ts/00_commitinfo_data.ts b/ts/00_commitinfo_data.ts
index cf3e036..b2e5391 100644
--- a/ts/00_commitinfo_data.ts
+++ b/ts/00_commitinfo_data.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
  */
 export const commitinfo = {
   name: '@git.zone/tswatch',
-  version: '2.2.2',
+  version: '2.2.3',
   description: 'A development tool for automatically watching and re-compiling TypeScript projects upon detecting file changes, enhancing developer workflows.'
 }
diff --git a/ts/tswatch.classes.watcher.ts b/ts/tswatch.classes.watcher.ts
index 6ee2816..0f5b6b3 100644
--- a/ts/tswatch.classes.watcher.ts
+++ b/ts/tswatch.classes.watcher.ts
@@ -34,7 +34,11 @@ export class Watcher {
     logger.log('info', `trying to start watcher for ${this.options.filePathToWatch}`);
     await this.setupCleanup();
     console.log(`Looking at ${this.options.filePathToWatch} for changes`);
-    this.smartwatchInstance.add([this.options.filePathToWatch]); // __dirname refers to the directory of this very file
+    // Convert directory path to glob pattern for smartwatch
+    const watchPath = this.options.filePathToWatch.endsWith('/')
+      ? `${this.options.filePathToWatch}**/*`
+      : `${this.options.filePathToWatch}/**/*`;
+    this.smartwatchInstance.add([watchPath]);
     await this.smartwatchInstance.start();
     const changeObservable = await this.smartwatchInstance.getObservableFor('change');
     changeObservable.subscribe(() => {