[RFC PATCH 4/5] maintenance: update systemd scheduler docs

[Max Gautier <mg@max.gautier.name>]

Signed-off-by: Max Gautier <mg@max.gautier.name>
---
 Documentation/git-maintenance.txt | 33 +++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt b/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt
index 51d0f7e94b..6511c3f3f1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt
@@ -304,10 +304,9 @@ distributions, systemd timers are superseding it.
 If user systemd timers are available, they will be used as a replacement
 of `cron`.
 
-In this case, `git maintenance start` will create user systemd timer units
-and start the timers. The current list of user-scheduled tasks can be found
-by running `systemctl --user list-timers`. The timers written by `git
-maintenance start` are similar to this:
+In this case, `git maintenance start` will enable user systemd timer units
+and start them. The current list of user-scheduled tasks can be found by
+running `systemctl --user list-timers`. These timers are similar to this:
 
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 $ systemctl --user list-timers
@@ -317,25 +316,25 @@ Fri 2021-04-30 00:00:00 CEST 5h 42min left Thu 2021-04-29 00:00:11 CEST 18h ago
 Mon 2021-05-03 00:00:00 CEST 3 days left   Mon 2021-04-26 00:00:11 CEST 3 days ago git-maintenance@weekly.timer git-maintenance@weekly.service
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-One timer is registered for each `--schedule=<frequency>` option.
+One timer instance is enabled for each `--schedule=<frequency>` option.
 
-The definition of the systemd units can be inspected in the following files:
+The definition of the systemd units can be inspected this way:
 
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-~/.config/systemd/user/git-maintenance@.timer
-~/.config/systemd/user/git-maintenance@.service
-~/.config/systemd/user/timers.target.wants/git-maintenance@hourly.timer
-~/.config/systemd/user/timers.target.wants/git-maintenance@daily.timer
-~/.config/systemd/user/timers.target.wants/git-maintenance@weekly.timer
+$ systemctl cat --user git-maintenance@.timer
+$ systemctl cat --user git-maintenance@.service
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-`git maintenance start` will overwrite these files and start the timer
-again with `systemctl --user`, so any customization should be done by
-creating a drop-in file, i.e. a `.conf` suffixed file in the
-`~/.config/systemd/user/git-maintenance@.service.d` directory.
+Customization of the timer or service can be performed with the usual systemd
+tooling:
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+$ systemctl edit --user git-maintenance@.timer # all the timers
+$ systemctl edit --user git-maintenance@hourly.timer # the hourly timer
+$ systemctl edit --user git-maintenance@.service # all the services
+$ systemctl edit --user git-maintenance@hourly.service # the hourly run
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-`git maintenance stop` will stop the user systemd timers and delete
-the above mentioned files.
+`git maintenance stop` will disable and stop the user systemd timers.
 
 For more details, see `systemd.timer(5)`.
 
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