Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2021, #02; Tue, 3)

[Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>]

On 04/08/2021 15:22, Derrick Stolee wrote:
> On 8/4/2021 3:03 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> ...
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> [Stalled]
> ...
>> * lh/systemd-timers (2021-07-02) 3 commits
>>   - maintenance: add support for systemd timers on Linux
>>   - maintenance: `git maintenance run` learned `--scheduler=<scheduler>`
>>   - cache.h: Introduce a generic "xdg_config_home_for(…)" function
>>
>>   "git maintenance" scheduler learned to use systemd timers as a
>>   possible backend.
>>
>>   Waiting for reviews.
> 
> I just took another look at this series and see that there were a few
> items that have yet to be addressed. CC'ing Lénaïc and reviewers to
> see if those items will come in a v8. Here is a quick summary of my
> understanding:
> 
> * There are some non-ASCII characters in a code comment that are a
>    bit non-standard and could be replaced with ASCII representations.
>    (nit, but if re-rolling already this might be worth doing.)
> 
> * There is some discussion about using string_list_split() instead
>    of hand-rolling a string splitter. Discussion decided that we
>    should _not_ use strbuf_split_buf(). It would be nice to later
>    create a version of strvec_split() that takes an arbitrary
>    delimiter, but isn't necessary for this series.
> 
> * There was some discussion about using #ifdef to make certain
>    logic be compiled in or not. This seems (to me) less important
>    in the case of returning 0 or 1, but in the third patch there
>    is a large set of logic that is only compiled on Linux, which
>    seems like it should match the pattern of the other methods,
>    if possible.
> 
> Again, this is just my drive-by summary, but hopefully it renews
> work on this topic.

I think that is a fair summary, I'd be happy to see us take this series 
as-is, the code is fine and any small warts could be cleaned up in the 
future. I think Eric expressed a similar opinion in [1]. Lénaïc has been 
responsive to fixing bugs as well as taking on board other comments, I 
think we've reached the stage where it is not reasonable to keep asking 
for small changes.

Best Wishes

Phillip

[1] 
https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAPig+cT-x4_YuxmmoFw62jFqKRFJrS_UkyNOkdQz9-Gwec3QCQ@mail.gmail.com

> Thanks,
> -Stolee
>