From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 09:52:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] maintenance: `git maintenance run` learned `--scheduler=<scheduler>`
Message-ID: <31eda7fa-5935-91e8-0059-09188cb30511@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20210520221359.75615-4-lenaic@lhuard.fr>

On 21/05/21 05.13, Lénaïc Huard wrote:
> Depending on the system, different schedulers can be used to schedule
> the hourly, daily and weekly executions of `git maintenance run`:
> * `launchctl` for MacOS,
> * `schtasks` for Windows and
> * `crontab` for everything else.
> 

...and soon to be supported systemd timers.

> `git maintenance run` now has an option to let the end-user explicitly
> choose which scheduler he wants to use:
> `--scheduler=auto|crontab|launchctl|schtasks`.
> 
> When `git maintenance start --scheduler=XXX` is run, it not only
> registers `git maintenance run` tasks in the scheduler XXX, it also
> removes the `git maintenance run` tasks from all the other schedulers to
> ensure we cannot have two schedulers launching concurrent identical
> tasks.
> 
> The default value is `auto` which chooses a suitable scheduler for the
> system.
>
  
Until this point, we haven't supported systemd timers yet, but in the next
patch we add support for it. So the patch description looks OK.

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