Watcher is sensitive during git transaction

[blaggacao]

• My git workflow is based on https://www.git-town.com/
• When I do git town sync a couple of stashes and unstashes are done (similar to what pre-commit does on unclean repos)
• ... you guessed it! skaffold dev is sensitive to such merely chore filesystem changes.
• This eventually gets annoying.

I propose to pause skaffold watcher during a git transaction.

See discussion on direnv for similar issue direnv/direnv#653.

Contrary to direnv, can we make up a use case where one actually would have a complete rebuild in the midst of a git rebase merge conflict?

[MarlonGamez]

Hi @blaggacao, thanks for opening this issue. This is something we noticed pretty recently as well, and we'd like to figure this out soon

[briandealwis]

@blaggacao out of curiosity, how long does it take to do these operations?

I like the idea of being able to configure a block-file like .git/index.lock

You might try using the manual trigger or polling-based trigger and setting its interval:

skaffold dev --trigger=polling --watch-poll-interval=5000

[blaggacao]

out of curiosity, how long does it take to do these operations?

roughly between 5 to 20 seconds, depending on whether there is much to fetch.

You might try using the manual trigger or polling-based trigger and setting its interval:

That looks like a doable workaround with some chance of benefits, however I'm likely to just stop skaffold before doing those operations for the time being.