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authorPatrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>2025-10-24 08:57:21 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2025-10-24 13:42:44 -0700
commit0e994d9f38ebf20c8492882a12b5fbbf0415e015 (patch)
treeaf236499520c0eac3300015453dff13cf5c2ca74 /commit-graph.h
parent6a7d3eeb4703ab27ec7520d6e7fa9145e66f43dc (diff)
builtin/maintenance: extend "maintenance.strategy" to manual maintenance
The "maintenance.strategy" configuration allows users to configure how Git is supposed to perform repository maintenance. The idea is that we provide a set of high-level strategies that may be useful in different contexts, like for example when handling a large monorepo. Furthermore, the strategy can be tweaked by the user by overriding specific tasks. In its current form though, the strategy only applies to scheduled maintenance. This creates something of a gap, as scheduled and manual maintenance will now use _different_ strategies as the latter would continue to use git-gc(1) by default. This makes the strategies way less useful than they could be on the one hand. But even more importantly, the two different strategies might clash with one another, where one of the strategies performs maintenance in such a way that it discards benefits from the other strategy. So ideally, it should be possible to pick one strategy that then applies globally to all the different ways that we perform maintenance. This doesn't necessarily mean that the strategy always does the _same_ thing for every maintenance type. But it means that the strategy can configure the different types to work in tandem with each other. Change the meaning of "maintenance.strategy" accordingly so that the strategy is applied to both types, manual and scheduled. As preceding commits have introduced logic to run maintenance tasks depending on this type we can tweak strategies so that they perform those tasks depending on the context. Note that this raises the question of backwards compatibility: when the user has configured the "incremental" strategy we would have ignored that strategy beforehand. Instead, repository maintenance would have continued to use git-gc(1) by default. But luckily, we can match that behaviour by: - Keeping all current tasks of the incremental strategy as `MAINTENANCE_TYPE_SCHEDULED`. This ensures that those tasks will not run during manual maintenance. - Configuring the "gc" task so that it is invoked during manual maintenance. Like this, the user shouldn't observe any difference in behaviour. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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