GitLens starts watching home directory, causing 100% CPU usage and watcher breakage #4335
Description
Description
At some random point, GitLens decides to start recursively watching the entire home directory, using up about ~400_000 watches (expected I guess, since the home directory has a lot of files), and causing the VSCode file watcher process CPU usage to spike to 100% and any further file watches to break.
[see logs]
(Perhaps relevant: The home directory has a .git directory for dotfiles).
The watching happens in a random open VSCode project, and the home directory itself is of course not open under any Git repository or GitLens view.
GitLens should probably try not to watch directories completely unrelated to the open project, especially if it basically breaks the IDE watcher.
GitLens Version
v17.1.1
VS Code Version
Version: 1.100.2
Commit: 848b80aeb52026648a8ff9f7c45a9b0a80641e2e
Date: 2025-05-14T21:47:40.416Z
Electron: 34.5.1
ElectronBuildId: 11369351
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.12.27-amd64
Git Version
git version 2.47.2
Logs, Screenshots, Screen Captures, etc
VSCode developer tools at TRACE level:
log.ts:420 TRACE MainThreadFileSystemEventService#$watch(): request to start watching uncorrelated (extension: eamodio.gitlens, path: file:///home/jaens, recursive: true, session: 0.39231489162946787, excludes: ["**/.git/objects/**","**/.git/subtree-cache/**","**/.hg/store/**","**/.ammonite/**","**/.bloop/**","**/.direnv/**","**/.metals/**","**/.ruff_cache/**","**/.terraform/**","**/.venv/**","**/node_modules/**","/usr/**"], includes: undefined)
log.ts:420 TRACE MainThreadFileSystemEventService#$watch(): request to start watching uncorrelated (extension: eamodio.gitlens, path: file:///home/jaens/.git, recursive: true, session: 0.2615199880606571, excludes: ["**/.git/objects/**","**/.git/subtree-cache/**","**/.hg/store/**","**/.ammonite/**","**/.bloop/**","**/.direnv/**","**/.metals/**","**/.ruff_cache/**","**/.terraform/**","**/.venv/**","**/node_modules/**","/usr/**"], includes: undefined)
inotify-info output:
Pid Uid App Watches Instances
1912429 1000 code 399,247 2