Re: [PATCH 3/3] builtin/maintenance: fix loose objects task emitting pack hash

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 20, 2024, 15:58 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqle0rb2zy.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <ZsRIHS0mFZaRHFVc@tanuki>

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

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> I certainly appreciate the discussion, thanks for chiming in! I'm still
> not convinced that we should continue to couple auto-maintenance and
> backgrounding to each other. In my opinion, this behaviour was a mistake
> in the past and continues to surprise now, too. Making it an explicit
> option feels more natural to me.
>
> That being said, when others feel strongly about this, as well, then I'm
> of course happy to adapt.

FWIW, I find it is a sensible approach to have a separate "run in the background" that is not strongly tied to "do your thing if you think the repository really needs it".

Thanks.

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