From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 19:25:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] maintenance: fix launchctl calendar intervals
Message-ID: <d5cdcfe0-5dd1-46ed-9860-a9949bd6b3b5@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1ptl76oh.fsf@gitster.g>

On 4/21/2025 1:42 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Josh Heinrichs <joshiheinrichs@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> When using the launchctl scheduler, the weekly job runs daily, and the
>> daily job runs on the first six days of each month. This appears to be
>> due to specifying "Day" in the calendar intervals, which according to
>> launchd.plist(5) is for specifying days of the month rather than days of
>> the week. The behaviour of running a job on the 0th day is undocumented,
>> but in my testing appears to be the same as not specifying "Day" in the
>> calendar interval, in which case the job will run daily.
>>
>> Use "Weekday" in the calendar intervals, which is the correct way to
>> schedule jobs to run on specific days of the week.

Wow, good find! Thank you for submitting a fix for this issue.

Thanks,
-Stolee