Re: Git and buildworld running at the same time

On Sat, Sep 13, 2025, at 9:40 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
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> 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.
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>> 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
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>> To find out of the src tree is pristine or dirty the build process uses git to find out.
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> Though that's only for the kernel, not for world builds. Right?

It happens for world builds as well.. newvers.sh runs git (used to be svnlite) and is called in Makefile.inc1.


Regards,
Brad Davis