maintenance: recommended schedule in register/start

The 'git maintenance (register|start)' subcommands add the current
repository to the global Git config so maintenance will operate on that
repository. It does not specify what maintenance should occur or how
often.

If a user sets any 'maintenance.<task>.schedule' config value, then
they have chosen a specific schedule for themselves and Git should
respect that.

However, in an effort to recommend a good schedule for repositories of
all sizes, set new config values for recommended tasks that are safe to
run in the background while users run foreground Git commands. These
commands are generally everything but the 'gc' task.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: derrickstolee

Documentation/git-maintenance.txt

@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ register::
 	`maintenance.<task>.schedule`. The tasks that are enabled are safe
 	for running in the background without disrupting foreground
 	processes.
++
+If your repository has no 'maintenance.<task>.schedule' configuration
+values set, then Git will set configuration values to some recommended
+settings. These settings disable foreground maintenance while performing
+maintenance tasks in the background that will not interrupt foreground Git
+operations.
 
 run::
 	Run one or more maintenance tasks. If one or more `--task` options

builtin/gc.c

@@ -1408,6 +1408,49 @@ static int maintenance_run(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	return maintenance_run_tasks(&opts);
 }
 
+static int has_schedule_config(void)
+{
+	int i, found = 0;
+	struct strbuf config_name = STRBUF_INIT;
+	size_t prefix;
+
+	strbuf_addstr(&config_name, "maintenance.");
+	prefix = config_name.len;
+
+	for (i = 0; !found && i < TASK__COUNT; i++) {
+		char *value;
+
+		strbuf_setlen(&config_name, prefix);
+		strbuf_addf(&config_name, "%s.schedule", tasks[i].name);
+
+		if (!git_config_get_string(config_name.buf, &value)) {
+			found = 1;
+			FREE_AND_NULL(value);
+		}
+	}
+
+	strbuf_release(&config_name);
+	return found;
+}
+
+static void set_recommended_schedule(void)
+{
+	git_config_set("maintenance.auto", "false");
+	git_config_set("maintenance.gc.enabled", "false");
+
+	git_config_set("maintenance.prefetch.enabled", "true");
+	git_config_set("maintenance.prefetch.schedule", "hourly");
+
+	git_config_set("maintenance.commit-graph.enabled", "true");
+	git_config_set("maintenance.commit-graph.schedule", "hourly");
+
+	git_config_set("maintenance.loose-objects.enabled", "true");
+	git_config_set("maintenance.loose-objects.schedule", "daily");
+
+	git_config_set("maintenance.incremental-repack.enabled", "true");
+	git_config_set("maintenance.incremental-repack.schedule", "daily");
+}
+
 static int maintenance_register(void)
 {
 	struct child_process config_set = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
@@ -1417,6 +1460,9 @@ static int maintenance_register(void)
 	if (!the_repository || !the_repository->gitdir)
 		return 0;
 
+	if (!has_schedule_config())
+		set_recommended_schedule();
+
 	config_get.git_cmd = 1;
 	strvec_pushl(&config_get.args, "config", "--global", "--get", "maintenance.repo",
 		     the_repository->worktree ? the_repository->worktree

t/t7900-maintenance.sh

@@ -305,7 +305,23 @@ test_expect_success 'register and unregister' '
 	git config --global --add maintenance.repo /existing1 &&
 	git config --global --add maintenance.repo /existing2 &&
 	git config --global --get-all maintenance.repo >before &&
+
+	# We still have maintenance.<task>.schedule config set,
+	# so this does not update the local schedule
+	git maintenance register &&
+	test_must_fail git config maintenance.auto &&
+
+	# Clear previous maintenance.<task>.schedule values
+	for task in loose-objects commit-graph incremental-repack
+	do
+		git config --unset maintenance.$task.schedule || return 1
+	done &&
 	git maintenance register &&
+	test_cmp_config false maintenance.auto &&
+	test_cmp_config false maintenance.gc.enabled &&
+	test_cmp_config true maintenance.prefetch.enabled &&
+	test_cmp_config hourly maintenance.commit-graph.schedule &&
+	test_cmp_config daily maintenance.incremental-repack.schedule &&
 	git config --global --get-all maintenance.repo >actual &&
 	cp before after &&
 	pwd >>after &&