From cb0f05c4e403f0603d2067d220ea048296c0ea63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 21:19:04 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Fix parsing of config set aborting on non-existent files

---
 tools/watch/api.go | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/watch/api.go b/tools/watch/api.go
index 0a1acc229..69a068860 100644
--- a/tools/watch/api.go
+++ b/tools/watch/api.go
@@ -93,6 +93,10 @@ func safe_eval_symlinks(path string) string {
 func get_set_of_config_files(config_paths []string) *utils.Set[string] {
 	cp := config.ConfigParser{
 		AllIncludedFiles: utils.NewSet[string](), LineHandler: func(k, v string) error { return nil }}
+	config_paths = utils.Filter(config_paths, func(path string) bool {
+		_, err := os.Stat(path)
+		return err == nil
+	})
 	cp.ParseFiles(config_paths...)
 	// Resolve symlinks in all paths collected by the parser (important on macOS
 	// where /tmp -> /private/tmp causes mismatches with FSEvents-reported paths).