Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Maintenance IV: Platform-specific background maintenance

> This is based on ds/maintenance-part-3.
>
> After sitting with the background maintenance as it has been cooking, I
> wanted to come back around and implement the background maintenance for
> Windows. However, I noticed that there were some things bothering me with
> background maintenance on my macOS machine. These are detailed in PATCH 3,
> but the tl;dr is that 'cron' is not recommended by Apple and instead
> 'launchd' satisfies our needs.
>
> This series implements the background scheduling so git maintenance
> (start|stop) works on those platforms. I've been operating with these
> schedules for a while now without the problems described in the patches.
>
> There is a particularly annoying case about console windows popping up on
> Windows, but PATCH 4 describes a plan to get around that.
>
>
> Update in V6
> ============
>
>  * The Windows platform uses the tempfile API a bit better, including using
>    the frequency in the filename to make the test simpler.