On a new machine (x86 Macbook Pro - to make some progress despite some ARM/Apple Silicon issues) I've checked out my repo that has my WIP Pants integration work... I kick off

./pants test

to bootstrap, build the venvs, and run the tests and find I have continuous loop...

14:39:12.61 [INFO] Filesystem changed during run: retrying `Test` in 500ms...
14:39:12.64 [INFO] Canceled: Building requirements.pex with 4 requirements: <requirements elided>
14:40:12.36 [INFO] Filesystem changed during run: retrying `Test` in 500ms...
14:40:12.39 [INFO] Canceled: Building requirements.pex with 4 requirements:
<requirements elided>

I recommend checking out

.pants.d/pants.log

- it should tell you which files are being invalidated You can then add it to

[GLOBAL].pants_ignore.add

or your top-level

.gitignore

(which auto-populates

pants_ignore

)

thanks for the response!

15:38:12.50 [INFO] notify invalidation: cleared 0 and dirtied 0 nodes for: {".git", ".git/FETCH_HEAD.lock"}
15:38:12.50 [INFO] notify invalidation: cleared 0 and dirtied 0 nodes for: {".git/FETCH_HEAD.lock", ".git"}
15:38:12.50 [INFO] notify invalidation: cleared 0 and dirtied 0 nodes for: {".git/FETCH_HEAD.lock"}
15:38:12.50 [INFO] notify invalidation: cleared 0 and dirtied 0 nodes for: {".git", ".git/FETCH_HEAD"}
15:38:12.50 [INFO] notify invalidation: cleared 0 and dirtied 0 nodes for: {".git", ".git/FETCH_HEAD"}
15:38:12.50 [INFO] notify invalidation: cleared 1 and dirtied 1008 nodes for: {".git", ".git/FETCH_HEAD.lock"}
15:38:12.50 [INFO] notify invalidation: cleared 0 and dirtied 0 nodes for: {".git/FETCH_HEAD.lock", ".git"}

is what I'm seeing in

<repo root>/.pants.d/pants.log

So it looks like

.git

is being tracked for some reason 👀 short-term fix is to try this:

[GLOBAL]
pants_ignore.add = [".git"]

It should be, idk why it isn't

That appears to fix it. The dependencies are being built now, and it isn't being interrupted. And a repl has successfully opened 👍 One of the dependencies is imported from Git (via

poetry_requirements

and the

<dependency_name> = { git = "<https://github.com/some/repo.git>", tag = "some_tag" }

syntax... I wonder if that's a cause?

shouldn't be. were you by chance setting

pants_ignore

before? If so, to what?

yep, have been using

pants_ignore

instead of

pants_ignore.add

👍

Ahhh that's it, problem solved. I unfortunately don't think there's any change we can make beyond better documentation - there are times you don't want to ignore all of

.*/

, like if you have

.helper_code/

- some repos do that