Re: [PATCH 0/2] Maintenance: add pack-refs task

From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date: Feb 8, 2021, 22:46 UTC
Message-ID: <YCG/X12qKVKu3/pv@nand.local>
In-Reply-To: <pull.871.git.1612795943.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 02:52:21PM +0000, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote:

> I chose to add it to the incremental maintenance strategy at a weekly
> cadence. I'm not sure there is significant value to the difference between
> weekly and daily. It just seems to me that weekly is often enough. Feel free
> to correct me if you have a different opinion.

I don't have any strong opinion about this. At GitHub we run pack-refs as part of a maintenance-like job, which varies in frequency between different repositories based on a number of factors. In our busiest repository networks, this is almost certainly at least a few times a day, if not "as often as possible."

I'd suspect that for any laptop-sized repository, anywhere between daily and weekly is just fine.

I suppose weekly is a good starting point, since we can always change the default to run more often if enough users complain.

> My hope is that this patch series could be used as an example for further
> extracting tasks out of the gc task and making them be full maintenance
> tasks. Doing more of these extractions could be a good project for a new
> contributor.

That's great :-).

Thanks, Taylor