Re: [PATCH 0/3] 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 2,
> 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 3 describes a plan to get around that.
>
> Thanks, -Stolee
>
> Derrick Stolee (3):
>   maintenance: extract platform-specific scheduling
>   maintenance: use launchctl on macOS
>   maintenance: use Windows scheduled tasks
>
>  builtin/gc.c           | 428 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  t/t7900-maintenance.sh |  86 ++++++++-
>  t/test-lib.sh          |   4 +
>  3 files changed, 498 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: 0016b618182f642771dc589cf0090289f9fe1b4f
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-776%2Fderrickstolee%2Fmaintenance%2FmacOS-v1
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-776/derrickstolee/maintenance/macOS-v1
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/776