Re: Git and buildworld running at the same time

On Sat, Sep 13, 2025, at 8:57 AM, bob prohaska wrote:
> Lately I've noticed that sometimes while running buildworld a top
> window reports git running also. Up to now, I've surmised that 
> this is intentional, with git providing some housekeeping function.
>
> Yesterday a buildworld session was accompanied by a prolonged
> interval of git running also, with a large memory footprint,
> near 1GB. That seems rather excessive.
>
> At the same time, it dawned on me that my recent habit has been
> to run git pull, immediately followed by buildworld. Might it be
> prudent to wait (how long?) to let git finish any housekeeping
> triggered by the pull command? It seems likely that any overlap
> could readily lead to inconsistencies which might account for
> some of the buildworld problems I've been encountering lately.

This is part of the normal build process and how the output of uname -a includes bits like this: main-n280188-2024887abc7d-dirty or main-n280188-2024887abc7d

To find out of the src tree is pristine or dirty the build process uses git to find out.


Regards,
Brad Davis