From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 15:58:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] builtin/maintenance: fix loose objects task emitting pack hash
Message-ID: <xmqqle0rb2zy.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <ZsRIHS0mFZaRHFVc@tanuki>

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

> 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.