Re: Git and buildworld running at the same time

On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM Brad Davis <brd@freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

Though that's only for the kernel, not for world builds. Right?

Warner