Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2025, #09; Sat, 25)

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 09:40:48AM +0100, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

> > * ps/maintenance-geometric (2025-10-23) 11 commits
> >  - builtin/maintenance: introduce "geometric" strategy
> >  - builtin/maintenance: make "gc" strategy accessible
> >  - builtin/maintenance: extend "maintenance.strategy" to manual maintenance
> >  - builtin/maintenance: run maintenance tasks depending on type
> >  - builtin/maintenance: improve readability of strategies
> >  - builtin/maintenance: don't silently ignore invalid strategy
> >  - builtin/maintenance: make the geometric factor configurable
> >  - builtin/maintenance: introduce "geometric-repack" task
> >  - builtin/gc: make `too_many_loose_objects()` reusable without GC config
> >  - builtin/gc: remove global `repack` variable
> >  - Merge branch 'tb/incremental-midx-part-3.1' into ps/maintenance-geometric
> >  (this branch uses tb/incremental-midx-part-3.1.)
> > 
> >  "git maintenance" command learns the "geometric" strategy where it
> >  avoids doing maintenance tasks that rebuilds everything from
> >  scratch.
> > 
> >  Will merge to 'next'.
> >  source: <20251024-pks-maintenance-geometric-strategy-v3-0-9b5b3bdb4387@pks.im>
> 
> Note that I've sent a minor reroll to address a CI flake that Peff
> reported in [1]. I don't think that we need to fix regeneration of the
> MIDX for now, as this is not a new problem. But it's something that we
> may want to address in the future so that we don't regenerate the MIDX
> in case we know it won't change anyway.

Ah, sorry, I hadn't seen your re-roll when I wrote my other response.
What you wrote in v4 looks like a reasonable band-aid to me.

-Peff