"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 3,
> but the tl;dr is that 'cron' is not recommended by Apple and instead
> 'launchd' satisfies our needs.
>
> 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 4 describes a plan to get around that.
>
>
> Update in V6
> ============
>
> * The Windows platform uses the tempfile API a bit better, including using
> the frequency in the filename to make the test simpler.
Are two fix-up patches from Eric that have been queued near the top
of ds/maintenance-part-4 still relevant?
At least, the "when invoked individually" patch that added an "-f"
option to two invocations of "rm" is still applicable, I would
think (I didn't look at the other one).
commit e3801c41e4d4cb1dd899942e04ab78310e781d07
Author: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
t7900: make macOS-specific test work on Windows
Notes (amlog):
Message-Id: <20201130044224.12298-3-sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 1e5ddd79e2da18ee19b665a045d4187c5dc6234e
Author: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
t7900: fix test failures when invoked individually via --run
Notes (amlog):
Message-Id: <20201130044224.12298-2-sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
