# Re: \[PATCH 2/7\] maintenance: store the "last run" time in config

- From: Đoàn Trần Công Danh \<hidden\>
- Date: 2020-08-20 14:34:57 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2020/08/7856389
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2020/08/7856389/t.md

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On 2020-08-19 17:16:43+0000, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget [ref] wrote:
> From: Derrick Stolee <redacted>
> 
> Users may want to run certain maintenance tasks only so often. Update
> the local config with a new 'maintenance.<task>.lastRun' config option
> that stores the timestamp just before running the maintenance task.
> 
> I selected the timestamp before the task, as opposed to after the task,
> for a couple reasons:
> 
>  1. The time the task takes to execute should not contribute to the
>     interval between running the tasks. If a daily task takes 10 minutes
>     to run, then every day the execution will drift by at least 10
>     minutes.
> 
>  2. If the task fails for some unforseen reason, it would be good to
>     indicate that we _attempted_ the task at a certain timestamp. This
>     will avoid spamming a repository that is in a bad state.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <redacted>
> ---
>  Documentation/config/maintenance.txt |   5 +++++
>  builtin/gc.c                         |  16 ++++++++++++++++
>  git-gvfs-helper                      | Bin 0 -> 11171736 bytes
>  t/helper/test-gvfs-protocol          | Bin 0 -> 10946928 bytes

Look like those 2 files should be added into .gitignore, no?

-- 
Danh
```