Hugo rebuild loop when using Visual Studio Code

Question

When I open a Hugo project in Visual Studio Code and run hugo server, the Hugo server goes into a constant rebuild cycle, even though I'm not making any changes to the content. For example:

Change detected, rebuilding site.
2022-02-01 10:35:45.916 +0000
Rebuilt in 856 ms

Change detected, rebuilding site.
2022-02-01 10:35:52.415 +0000
Rebuilt in 861 ms

If I'm viewing a page in a web browser, this in turn triggers a page reload every few seconds.

If VSCode is closed this is not an issue; similarly, I don't get this if I edit in TextMate.

I'm assuming that VSCode must be modifying some files, and that the Hugo server is detecting those changes.

How can I stop this? For example, is there a Hugo config element that I could change to ignore changes to certain files that are only touched by VSCode?

For additional information such as versions, this is the output from starting Hugo:

Start building sites … 
hugo v0.89.4+extended darwin/amd64 BuildDate=unknown

                   | EN  
-------------------+-----
  Pages            | 43  
  Paginator pages  |  0  
  Non-page files   |  4  
  Static files     | 43  
  Processed images | 10  
  Aliases          |  3  
  Sitemaps         |  1  
  Cleaned          |  0  

Built in 688 ms
Watching for changes in /Users/stevie/dev/gowork/src/github.com/stephen-masters/hugo-test/{assets,content,layouts,package.json,themes}
Watching for config changes in /Users/stevie/dev/gowork/src/github.com/stephen-masters/hugo-test/config.toml, /Users/stevie/dev/gowork/src/github.com/stephen-masters/hugo-test/themes/docsy/config.toml
Environment: "development"
Serving pages from memory
Running in Fast Render Mode.

Answer 1

My solution is to disable git.autorefresh in settings, and that immediately solves this problem. Perhaps it is related to some changes happened in the .git directory.