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| author | Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> | 2020-09-11 17:49:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2020-09-25 10:59:44 -0700 |
| commit | 2fec604f8df51fcf47551723e68a3447915b9eb9 (patch) | |
| tree | 7373599d9ca099967136d0082cf572a4e23d62a2 /Documentation/git-maintenance.txt | |
| parent | 0c18b700810ab2e2a4fac0d5b54a817141198a27 (diff) | |
| download | git-2fec604f8df51fcf47551723e68a3447915b9eb9.tar.gz | |
maintenance: add start/stop subcommands
Add new subcommands to 'git maintenance' that start or stop background
maintenance using 'cron', when available. This integration is as simple
as I could make it, barring some implementation complications.
The schedule is laid out as follows:
0 1-23 * * * $cmd maintenance run --schedule=hourly
0 0 * * 1-6 $cmd maintenance run --schedule=daily
0 0 * * 0 $cmd maintenance run --schedule=weekly
where $cmd is a properly-qualified 'git for-each-repo' execution:
$cmd=$path/git --exec-path=$path for-each-repo --config=maintenance.repo
where $path points to the location of the Git executable running 'git
maintenance start'. This is critical for systems with multiple versions
of Git. Specifically, macOS has a system version at '/usr/bin/git' while
the version that users can install resides at '/usr/local/bin/git'
(symlinked to '/usr/local/libexec/git-core/git'). This will also use
your locally-built version if you build and run this in your development
environment without installing first.
This conditional schedule avoids having cron launch multiple 'git
for-each-repo' commands in parallel. Such parallel commands would likely
lead to the 'hourly' and 'daily' tasks competing over the object
database lock. This could lead to to some tasks never being run! Since
the --schedule=<frequency> argument will run all tasks with _at least_
the given frequency, the daily runs will also run the hourly tasks.
Similarly, the weekly runs will also run the daily and hourly tasks.
The GIT_TEST_CRONTAB environment variable is not intended for users to
edit, but instead as a way to mock the 'crontab [-l]' command. This
variable is set in test-lib.sh to avoid a future test from accidentally
running anything with the cron integration from modifying the user's
schedule. We use GIT_TEST_CRONTAB='test-tool crontab <file>' in our
tests to check how the schedule is modified in 'git maintenance
(start|stop)' commands.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-maintenance.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-maintenance.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt b/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt index 1c59fd0cb5..7628a6d157 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt @@ -45,6 +45,17 @@ run:: config options are true. By default, only `maintenance.gc.enabled` is true. +start:: + Start running maintenance on the current repository. This performs + the same config updates as the `register` subcommand, then updates + the background scheduler to run `git maintenance run --scheduled` + on an hourly basis. + +stop:: + Halt the background maintenance schedule. The current repository + is not removed from the list of maintained repositories, in case + the background maintenance is restarted later. + unregister:: Remove the current repository from background maintenance. This only removes the repository from the configured list. It does not |