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It seems that `pantsd` does not pick up changes to `.gitignore` and is not restarted automatically, so it becomes a manual labor to make sure it is restarted in order for changes to have any effect. Is this known?

Have you tried adding `.gitignore` to `pantsd_invalidation_globs` ? (<https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/reference-global#section-pantsd-invalidation-globs>)

Possibly it should be in there by default

Yeah, no I haven’t tried that (and realize that would work)
However, as it uses it by default for ignore patterns, it would make sense to also invalidate on it by default :wink:

it would yea: a patch would be welcome to do that.

there are a list of things that are consumed outside of `@rules` (so the usual invalidation doesn’t “just work”) here: <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/blob/88e895a49823e76660ca3467b521ef84973ba104/src/python/pants/option/global_options.py#L1609-L1622>

<https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/12711>