Use the polling watcher by default in pub tests for now.

sdk/lib/_internal/pub/lib/src/command/serve.dart

Index: sdk/lib/_internal/pub/lib/src/command/serve.dart
diff --git a/sdk/lib/_internal/pub/lib/src/command/serve.dart b/sdk/lib/_internal/pub/lib/src/command/serve.dart
index d3df35a2563f8e81aa1c8b9814d54db966261022..916696ef7f1054b185d28bd78f9bd2964039c4fa 100644
--- a/sdk/lib/_internal/pub/lib/src/command/serve.dart
+++ b/sdk/lib/_internal/pub/lib/src/command/serve.dart
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ class ServeCommand extends PubCommand {
 
     commandParser.addFlag('minify', defaultsTo: false,
         help: 'Minify generated JavaScript.');
+
+    commandParser.addFlag('force-poll', defaultsTo: false,
+        help: 'Force the use of a polling filesystem watcher.');

[Bob Nystrom, 2013/11/08 01:32:32]

How about just "--poll"? It's not really "forcing" since you're just picking the
way to do it.

[nweiz, 2013/11/08 01:44:24]

That was how I had it originally, but it seemed weird since the default is to
sometimes poll anyway. What this flag means is *always* poll, which is what
"--force-*" often means. Also "--no-force-poll" is more accurate than
"--no-poll".

   }
 
   Future onRun() {
@@ -77,9 +80,12 @@ class ServeCommand extends PubCommand {
         ];
       }
 
+      var watcherType = commandOptions['force-poll'] ?
+          barback.WatcherType.POLLING : barback.WatcherType.AUTO;
       // TODO(rnystrom): Allow specifying other modes.
       return barback.createServer(hostname, port, graph, BarbackMode.DEBUG,
-          builtInTransformers: builtInTransformers);
+          builtInTransformers: builtInTransformers,
+          watcher: watcherType);
     }).then((server) {
       /// This completer is used to keep pub running (by not completing) and
       /// to pipe fatal errors to pub's top-level error-handling machinery.