Extension becomes a CPU hog

[vthemelis]

Description

The extension calls git commands that can take a very long time (eg more than a day) and keep them running. This shows as a large amount of git processes running on the background each using 100% of the CPU.

Could we add timeouts to these?

What triggered this for me was checking out a huge repo with a tree filter and then blaming a file:

# Clone huge repository with a filter
git clone --filter tree:0 https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped

and then blame a few files with the extension to reproduce.

Can we add a timeout to git commands?

GitLens Version

15.0.3

VS Code Version

No response

Git Version

No response

Logs, Screenshots, Screen Captures, etc

No response

[xrstf]

I am also experiencing issues with GitLens. At first I blamed microsoft/vscode#213136, but after disabling GitLens, the CPU usage immediately went down.

However, running strace on the evil process does not show it spawning tons of git processes, so I really do not know why GitLens has been frying my CPU for nearly half a year now (until I figured out, today, that it is the culprit).

[vthemelis]

The issue is not that it keeps on spacing processes. The issue is that at since point it so prawns processes that stay running for a very long time. For me it was obvious by looking on the output of ps aux