From 6279b78b801ca3e7822cbdde9b4055dabae2f146 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "google-labs-jules[bot]"
 <161369871+google-labs-jules[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:31:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] refactor(watcher): replace panic with error logging

- Replace panic(err) with color.Errorf in walkSingleDirectory
- Replace panic("Error touching file" + path) with color.Errorf and return false in isFileChanged
- Improves application robustness by preventing crashes on filesystem errors.

Co-authored-by: cmuench <211294+cmuench@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 internal/watcher/watcher.go | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/internal/watcher/watcher.go b/internal/watcher/watcher.go
index 887f5fd..900ae63 100644
--- a/internal/watcher/watcher.go
+++ b/internal/watcher/watcher.go
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ func walkSingleDirectory(we config.WatchEntry) {
 	})
 
 	if err != nil {
-		panic(err)
+		color.Errorf("Error during directory walk: %v\n", err)
 	}
 }
 
@@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ func isFileChanged(path string) bool {
 			err := os.Chtimes(path, currentTime, currentModificationTime)
 
 			if err != nil {
-				panic("Error touching file" + path)
+				color.Errorf("Error touching file %s: %v\n", path, err)
+				return false
 			}
 
 			fileMap[path] = NodeInfo{