Re: [PATCH 00/21] Maintenance builtin, allowing 'gc --auto' customization

On 7/9/2020 10:05 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

For existing callers, "git gc --auto" may want to be left alive,
merely as a thin wrapper around "git maintenance --auto", and as
long as the latter is done in the same spirit of the former, i.e.
perform a lightweight check to see if the repository is so out of
shape and then do a minimum cleaning, it would be welcomed by users
if it does a lot more than the current "git gc --auto".

It's entirely possible that (after the 'maintenance' builtin
stabilizes) that we make 'git gc --auto' become an alias of something
like 'git maintenance run --task=gc --auto' (or itemize all of the
sub-tasks) so that 'git gc --auto' doesn't change behavior.

That's a big motivation for adding all code into builtin/gc.c so
we can access these tasks inside GC without needing to move or
copy the code. I'm trying to preserve history as much as possible.

Thanks,
-Stolee