From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pb-smtp21.pobox.com (pb-smtp21.pobox.com [173.228.157.53]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E1E0D1429A for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2024 15:58:14 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=173.228.157.53 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1724169496; cv=none; b=cWzKYQouWbbp2uEO9HEIj8O03WVOYQocOURICOYvl91bPi8JczEUFvM/QJXC+Iz2xMzNcXgZ1uFcEkNYvns7xzjN8WVisXW5rd5LwcwAKiCESiFVyQEr8+cD8cToEQfFFbzjCJd2yowmI6Npddhe+IwXYDDjPXAy99DJxnFqaF4= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1724169496; c=relaxed/simple; bh=akD2Fr+sqDEgDVWNqAKxZO49y6x8+0nt9PCUzxsP02U=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=t0RGy5OwydpzdltuMvAu16Ss721D8YiYRrdPcgvWkrwfWJsj4x4KMBxuTsTdJFawPw7GEJZezifCQXWKsys6Yy1Jw39/3MSxMlvQyoW1bOH10Kx3VJyIIyQ9Y0WS8AONq1x+UbrnSt5J6919U5ZA029JVqKZnzfkTwQDbguJIXU= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=pobox.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=pobox.com; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=pobox.com header.i=@pobox.com header.b=NXrmpJo8; arc=none smtp.client-ip=173.228.157.53 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=pobox.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=pobox.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=pobox.com header.i=@pobox.com header.b="NXrmpJo8" Received: from pb-smtp21.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp21.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 632B5245C2; Tue, 20 Aug 2024 11:58:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gitster@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=akD2Fr+sqDEgDVWNqAKxZO49y6x8+0nt9PCUzx sP02U=; b=NXrmpJo8ZQ3jxBaXZa4Uy1fgWnRL3KNenrnOTOakcqv7MQeQ5ORDd0 AG9rRyBWsSyTs7NhxvCn3/fF3rurHZupNEXXduRmTi7q0VFlR1TK+eSzrGpdvucB ElDfZTgTL7h9pu7ovvpnDOJHUSuIOFyAPDVp/rftSOQkuDEBh1mTc= Received: from pb-smtp21.sea.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp21.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C1CF245C1; Tue, 20 Aug 2024 11:58:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gitster@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [34.125.94.240]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp21.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E2A90245C0; Tue, 20 Aug 2024 11:58:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gitster@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: Patrick Steinhardt Cc: Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org, Phillip Wood , phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk, James Liu , Derrick Stolee Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] builtin/maintenance: fix loose objects task emitting pack hash In-Reply-To: (Patrick Steinhardt's message of "Tue, 20 Aug 2024 09:39:09 +0200") References: <20240819085522.GD2955268@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20240819091715.GB2958552@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20240819102602.GA2961332@coredump.intra.peff.net> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 08:58:09 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: FFE81BF4-5F0C-11EF-B277-E92ED1CD468F-77302942!pb-smtp21.pobox.com Patrick Steinhardt writes: > I certainly appreciate the discussion, thanks for chiming in! I'm still > not convinced that we should continue to couple auto-maintenance and > backgrounding to each other. In my opinion, this behaviour was a mistake > in the past and continues to surprise now, too. Making it an explicit > option feels more natural to me. > > That being said, when others feel strongly about this, as well, then I'm > of course happy to adapt. FWIW, I find it is a sensible approach to have a separate "run in the background" that is not strongly tied to "do your thing if you think the repository really needs it". Thanks.