[PATCH 0/2] builtin/maintenance: improve heuristic for "rerere gc"

From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: Sep 3, 2026, 09:04 UTC
Message-ID: <20260903-b4-pks-maintenance-rerere-gc-heuristic-v1-0-9929c45a9788@pks.im>

Hi,

as reported and discussed in [1]. Thanks!

Patrick

[1]: <pull.2214.git.1788337897490.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

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Patrick Steinhardt (2):
      rerere: extract logic to determine whether entries are stale
      builtin/maintenance: improve heuristic for "rerere gc"

 Documentation/config/maintenance.adoc |  8 ++--
 builtin/gc.c                          | 26 ++--------
 rerere.c                              | 89 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 rerere.h                              |  6 +++
 t/t7900-maintenance.sh                | 61 ++++++++++++++++++------
 5 files changed, 135 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)

--- base-commit: 3cb9185f65410273787f74333cc027d2ea5daada change-id: 20260903-b4-pks-maintenance-rerere-gc-heuristic-763b0a9a50d2