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From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
To: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, peff@peff.net, jrnieder@google.com,
	Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] [RFC] Maintenance jobs and job runner
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 01:48:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200407014829.GL6369@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cc9df614-2736-7cdd-006f-59878ee551c8@gmail.com>

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On 2020-04-04 at 00:16:21, Derrick Stolee wrote:
> On 4/3/2020 5:40 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > "Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> >>  * git run-job <job-name>: This builtin will run a single instance of a
> >>    maintenance job.
> >> 
> >>  * git job-runner [--repo=<path>]: This builtin will run an infinite loop
> >>    that executes git run-job as a subcommand.
> > 
> > What does this have to do with "git", though?  IOW, why does this
> > have to be part of Git, so that those who would benefit from having
> > a mechanism that makes it easy to run regular maintenance tasks but
> > are not Git users (or those that want to do such maintenance tasks
> > that are not necessarily tied to "git") must use "git" to do so?
> > 
> > I'll find out later why it is so after reading thru 15 patches
> > myself, so no need to give a quick answer to the above; it was just
> > my knee-jerk reaction.
> 
> That's a reasonable reaction. The short version of my reasoning is that
> many many people _use_ Git but are not Git experts. While a Git expert
> could find the right set of commands to run and at what frequency to
> keep their repo clean, most users do not want to spend time learning
> these commands. It's also worth our time as contributors to select what
> a good set of non-intrusive maintenance tasks could be, and make them
> easily accessible to users.
> 
> This series gets us half of the way there: a user interested in doing
> background maintenance could figure out how to launch "git run-job" on
> a schedule for their platform, or to launch "git job-runner" at start-
> up. That's a lot simpler than learning how the commit-graph,
> multi-pack-index, prune-packed, pack-objects, and fetch builtins work
> with the complicated sets of arguments.

If there are periodic tasks that should be done, even if only on large
repos, then let's have a git gc --periodic that does them.  I'm not sure
that fetch should be in that set, but nothing prevents users from doing
"git fetch origin && git gc --periodic".  Let's make it as simple and
straightforward as possible.

As for handling multiple repositories, the tool to do that could be as
simple as a shell script which reads from ~/.config/git/repo-maintenance
(or whatever) and runs the same command on all of the repos it finds
there, possibly with a subcommand to add and remove repos.

> The second half would be to create a command such as
> 
> 	git please-run-maintenance-on-this-repo
> 
> that initializes the background jobs and enables them on the repo they
> are using. This allows the most casual of Git user to work efficiently
> on very large repositories.

I'm not opposed to seeing a tool that can schedule periodic maintenance
jobs, perhaps in contrib, depending on whether other people think it
should go.  However, I think running periodic jobs is best handled on
Unix with cron or anacron and not a custom tool or a command in Git.

I've dealt with systems that implemented periodic tasks without using
the existing tools for doing that, and I've found that usually that's a
mistake.  Despite seeming straightforward, there are a lot of tricky
edge cases to deal with and it's easy to get wrong.

We also don't have to reimplement all the features in the system
scheduler and can let expert users use a different tool of their choice
instead if cron (or the Windows equivalent) is not to their liking.
-- 
brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US
OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-07  1:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-03 20:47 [PATCH 00/15] [RFC] Maintenance jobs and job runner Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 01/15] run-job: create barebones builtin Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-05 15:10   ` Phillip Wood
2020-04-05 19:21     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-06 14:42       ` Derrick Stolee
2020-04-07  0:58         ` Danh Doan
2020-04-07 10:54           ` Derrick Stolee
2020-04-07 14:16             ` Danh Doan
2020-04-07 14:30               ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 02/15] run-job: implement commit-graph job Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-05-20 19:08   ` Josh Steadmon
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 03/15] run-job: implement fetch job Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-05 15:14   ` Phillip Wood
2020-04-06 12:48     ` Derrick Stolee
2020-04-05 20:28   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-06 12:46     ` Derrick Stolee
2020-05-20 19:08   ` Josh Steadmon
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 04/15] run-job: implement loose-objects job Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-05 20:33   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 05/15] run-job: implement pack-files job Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-05-27 22:17   ` Josh Steadmon
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 06/15] run-job: auto-size or use custom pack-files batch Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 07/15] config: add job.pack-files.batchSize option Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 08/15] job-runner: create builtin for job loop Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 09/15] job-runner: load repos from config by default Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-05 15:18   ` Phillip Wood
2020-04-06 12:49     ` Derrick Stolee
2020-04-05 15:41   ` Phillip Wood
2020-04-06 12:57     ` Derrick Stolee
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 10/15] job-runner: use config to limit job frequency Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-05 15:24   ` Phillip Wood
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 11/15] job-runner: use config for loop interval Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 12/15] job-runner: add --interval=<span> option Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 13/15] job-runner: skip a job if job.<job-name>.enabled is false Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 14/15] job-runner: add --daemonize option Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 20:48 ` [PATCH 15/15] runjob: customize the loose-objects batch size Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
2020-04-03 21:40 ` [PATCH 00/15] [RFC] Maintenance jobs and job runner Junio C Hamano
2020-04-04  0:16   ` Derrick Stolee
2020-04-07  0:50     ` Danh Doan
2020-04-07 10:59       ` Derrick Stolee
2020-04-07 14:26         ` Danh Doan
2020-04-07 14:43           ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-04-07  1:48     ` brian m. carlson [this message]
2020-04-07 20:08       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-07 22:23       ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-04-08  0:01         ` brian m. carlson
2020-05-27 22:39           ` Josh Steadmon
2020-05-28  0:47             ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-27 21:52               ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-05-28 14:48                 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-28 14:50                 ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-05-28 14:57                   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-28 15:03                     ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-05-28 15:30                       ` Derrick Stolee
2020-05-28  4:39                         ` Johannes Schindelin

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