"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > This is based on ds/maintenance-part-3. > > After sitting with the background maintenance as it has been cooking, I > wanted to come back around and implement the background maintenance for > Windows. However, I noticed that there were some things bothering me with > background maintenance on my macOS machine. These are detailed in PATCH 2, > but the tl;dr is that 'cron' is not recommended by Apple and instead > 'launchd' satisfies our needs. Nicely done. > This series implements the background scheduling so git maintenance > (start|stop) works on those platforms. I've been operating with these > schedules for a while now without the problems described in the patches. > > There is a particularly annoying case about console windows popping up on > Windows, but PATCH 3 describes a plan to get around that. > > Thanks, -Stolee > > Derrick Stolee (3): > maintenance: extract platform-specific scheduling > maintenance: use launchctl on macOS > maintenance: use Windows scheduled tasks > > builtin/gc.c | 428 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- > t/t7900-maintenance.sh | 86 ++++++++- > t/test-lib.sh | 4 + > 3 files changed, 498 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) > > > base-commit: 0016b618182f642771dc589cf0090289f9fe1b4f > Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-776%2Fderrickstolee%2Fmaintenance%2FmacOS-v1 > Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-776/derrickstolee/maintenance/macOS-v1 > Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/776
