запускать задачи для оптимизации данных репозитория Git (Run tasks to optimize Git repository data)
Имя (Name)
git-maintenance - Run tasks to optimize Git repository data
Синопсис (Synopsis)
git maintenance run [<options>]
Описание (Description)
Run tasks to optimize Git repository data, speeding up other Git
commands and reducing storage requirements for the repository.
Git commands that add repository data, such as git add
or git
fetch
, are optimized for a responsive user experience. These
commands do not take time to optimize the Git data, since such
optimizations scale with the full size of the repository while
these user commands each perform a relatively small action.
The git maintenance
command provides flexibility for how to
optimize the Git repository.
Подкоманда (Subcommand)
register
Initialize Git config values so any scheduled maintenance
will start running on this repository. This adds the
repository to the maintenance.repo
config variable in the
current user's global config and enables some recommended
configuration values for maintenance.<task>.schedule
. The
tasks that are enabled are safe for running in the background
without disrupting foreground processes.
The register
subcommand will also set the
maintenance.strategy
config value to incremental
, if this
value is not previously set. The incremental
strategy uses
the following schedule for each maintenance task:
• gc
: disabled.
• commit-graph
: hourly.
• prefetch
: hourly.
• loose-objects
: daily.
• incremental-repack
: daily.
git maintenance register
will also disable foreground
maintenance by setting maintenance.auto = false
in the
current repository. This config setting will remain after a
git maintenance unregister
command.
run
Run one or more maintenance tasks. If one or more --task
options are specified, then those tasks are run in that
order. Otherwise, the tasks are determined by which
maintenance.<task>.enabled
config options are true. By
default, only maintenance.gc.enabled
is true.
start
Start running maintenance on the current repository. This
performs the same config updates as the register
subcommand,
then updates the background scheduler to run git maintenance
run --scheduled
on an hourly basis.
stop
Halt the background maintenance schedule. The current
repository is not removed from the list of maintained
repositories, in case the background maintenance is restarted
later.
unregister
Remove the current repository from background maintenance.
This only removes the repository from the configured list. It
does not stop the background maintenance processes from
running.
TASKS
commit-graph
The commit-graph
job updates the commit-graph
files
incrementally, then verifies that the written data is
correct. The incremental write is safe to run alongside
concurrent Git processes since it will not expire .graph
files that were in the previous commit-graph-chain
file. They
will be deleted by a later run based on the expiration delay.
prefetch
The prefetch
task updates the object directory with the
latest objects from all registered remotes. For each remote,
a git fetch
command is run. The configured refspec is
modified to place all requested refs within refs/prefetch/
.
Also, tags are not updated.
This is done to avoid disrupting the remote-tracking
branches. The end users expect these refs to stay unmoved
unless they initiate a fetch. With prefetch task, however,
the objects necessary to complete a later real fetch would
already be obtained, so the real fetch would go faster. In
the ideal case, it will just become an update to a bunch of
remote-tracking branches without any object transfer.
gc
Clean up unnecessary files and optimize the local repository.
"GC" stands for "garbage collection," but this task performs
many smaller tasks. This task can be expensive for large
repositories, as it repacks all Git objects into a single
pack-file. It can also be disruptive in some situations, as
it deletes stale data. See git-gc(1) for more details on
garbage collection in Git.
loose-objects
The loose-objects
job cleans up loose objects and places them
into pack-files. In order to prevent race conditions with
concurrent Git commands, it follows a two-step process.
First, it deletes any loose objects that already exist in a
pack-file; concurrent Git processes will examine the
pack-file for the object data instead of the loose object.
Second, it creates a new pack-file (starting with "loose-")
containing a batch of loose objects. The batch size is
limited to 50 thousand objects to prevent the job from taking
too long on a repository with many loose objects. The gc
task
writes unreachable objects as loose objects to be cleaned up
by a later step only if they are not re-added to a pack-file;
for this reason it is not advisable to enable both the
loose-objects
and gc
tasks at the same time.
incremental-repack
The incremental-repack
job repacks the object directory using
the multi-pack-index
feature. In order to prevent race
conditions with concurrent Git commands, it follows a
two-step process. First, it calls git multi-pack-index expire
to delete pack-files unreferenced by the multi-pack-index
file. Second, it calls git multi-pack-index repack
to select
several small pack-files and repack them into a bigger one,
and then update the multi-pack-index
entries that refer to
the small pack-files to refer to the new pack-file. This
prepares those small pack-files for deletion upon the next
run of git multi-pack-index expire
. The selection of the
small pack-files is such that the expected size of the big
pack-file is at least the batch size; see the --batch-size
option for the repack
subcommand in git-multi-pack-index(1).
The default batch-size is zero, which is a special case that
attempts to repack all pack-files into a single pack-file.
pack-refs
The pack-refs
task collects the loose reference files and
collects them into a single file. This speeds up operations
that need to iterate across many references. See
git-pack-refs(1) for more information.
Параметры (Options)
--auto
When combined with the run
subcommand, run maintenance tasks
only if certain thresholds are met. For example, the gc
task
runs when the number of loose objects exceeds the number
stored in the gc.auto
config setting, or when the number of
pack-files exceeds the gc.autoPackLimit
config setting. Not
compatible with the --schedule
option.
--schedule
When combined with the run
subcommand, run maintenance tasks
only if certain time conditions are met, as specified by the
maintenance.<task>.schedule
config value for each <task>
.
This config value specifies a number of seconds since the
last time that task ran, according to the
maintenance.<task>.lastRun
config value. The tasks that are
tested are those provided by the --task=<task>
option(s) or
those with maintenance.<task>.enabled
set to true.
--quiet
Do not report progress or other information over stderr
.
--task=<task>
If this option is specified one or more times, then only run
the specified tasks in the specified order. If no
--task=<task>
arguments are specified, then only the tasks
with maintenance.<task>.enabled
configured as true
are
considered. See the TASKS section for the list of accepted
<task>
values.
Исправление проблем (Troubleshooting)
The git maintenance
command is designed to simplify the
repository maintenance patterns while minimizing user wait time
during Git commands. A variety of configuration options are
available to allow customizing this process. The default
maintenance options focus on operations that complete quickly,
even on large repositories.
Users may find some cases where scheduled maintenance tasks do
not run as frequently as intended. Each git maintenance run
command takes a lock on the repository's object database, and
this prevents other concurrent git maintenance run
commands from
running on the same repository. Without this safeguard, competing
processes could leave the repository in an unpredictable state.
The background maintenance schedule runs git maintenance run
processes on an hourly basis. Each run executes the "hourly"
tasks. At midnight, that process also executes the "daily" tasks.
At midnight on the first day of the week, that process also
executes the "weekly" tasks. A single process iterates over each
registered repository, performing the scheduled tasks for that
frequency. Depending on the number of registered repositories and
their sizes, this process may take longer than an hour. In this
case, multiple git maintenance run
commands may run on the same
repository at the same time, colliding on the object database
lock. This results in one of the two tasks not running.
If you find that some maintenance windows are taking longer than
one hour to complete, then consider reducing the complexity of
your maintenance tasks. For example, the gc
task is much slower
than the incremental-repack
task. However, this comes at a cost
of a slightly larger object database. Consider moving more
expensive tasks to be run less frequently.
Expert users may consider scheduling their own maintenance tasks
using a different schedule than is available through git
maintenance start
and Git configuration options. These users
should be aware of the object database lock and how concurrent
git maintenance run
commands behave. Further, the git gc
command
should not be combined with git maintenance run
commands. git gc
modifies the object database but does not take the lock in the
same way as git maintenance run
. If possible, use git maintenance
run --task=gc
instead of git gc
.
The following sections describe the mechanisms put in place to
run background maintenance by git maintenance start
and how to
customize them.
BACKGROUND MAINTENANCE ON POSIX SYSTEMS
The standard mechanism for scheduling background tasks on POSIX
systems is cron(8). This tool executes commands based on a given
schedule. The current list of user-scheduled tasks can be found
by running crontab -l
. The schedule written by git maintenance
start
is similar to this:
# BEGIN GIT MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE
# The following schedule was created by Git
# Any edits made in this region might be
# replaced in the future by a Git command.
0 1-23 * * * "/<path>/git" --exec-path="/<path>" for-each-repo --config=maintenance.repo maintenance run --schedule=hourly
0 0 * * 1-6 "/<path>/git" --exec-path="/<path>" for-each-repo --config=maintenance.repo maintenance run --schedule=daily
0 0 * * 0 "/<path>/git" --exec-path="/<path>" for-each-repo --config=maintenance.repo maintenance run --schedule=weekly
# END GIT MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE
The comments are used as a region to mark the schedule as written
by Git. Any modifications within this region will be completely
deleted by git maintenance stop
or overwritten by git maintenance
start
.
The crontab
entry specifies the full path of the git
executable
to ensure that the executed git
command is the same one with
which git maintenance start
was issued independent of PATH
. If
the same user runs git maintenance start
with multiple Git
executables, then only the latest executable is used.
These commands use git for-each-repo --config=maintenance.repo
to
run git maintenance run --schedule=<frequency>
on each repository
listed in the multi-valued maintenance.repo
config option. These
are typically loaded from the user-specific global config. The
git maintenance
process then determines which maintenance tasks
are configured to run on each repository with each <frequency>
using the maintenance.<task>.schedule
config options. These
values are loaded from the global or repository config values.
If the config values are insufficient to achieve your desired
background maintenance schedule, then you can create your own
schedule. If you run crontab -e
, then an editor will load with
your user-specific cron
schedule. In that editor, you can add
your own schedule lines. You could start by adapting the default
schedule listed earlier, or you could read the crontab(5)
documentation for advanced scheduling techniques. Please do use
the full path and --exec-path
techniques from the default
schedule to ensure you are executing the correct binaries in your
schedule.
BACKGROUND MAINTENANCE ON MACOS SYSTEMS
While macOS technically supports cron
, using crontab -e
requires
elevated privileges and the executed process does not have a full
user context. Without a full user context, Git and its credential
helpers cannot access stored credentials, so some maintenance
tasks are not functional.
Instead, git maintenance start
interacts with the launchctl
tool,
which is the recommended way to schedule timed jobs in macOS.
Scheduling maintenance through git maintenance (start|stop)
requires some launchctl
features available only in macOS 10.11 or
later.
Your user-specific scheduled tasks are stored as XML-formatted
.plist
files in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
. You can see the
currently-registered tasks using the following command:
$ ls ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.git-scm.git*
org.git-scm.git.daily.plist
org.git-scm.git.hourly.plist
org.git-scm.git.weekly.plist
One task is registered for each --schedule=<frequency>
option. To
inspect how the XML format describes each schedule, open one of
these .plist
files in an editor and inspect the <array>
element
following the <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
element.
git maintenance start
will overwrite these files and register the
tasks again with launchctl
, so any customizations should be done
by creating your own .plist
files with distinct names. Similarly,
the git maintenance stop
command will unregister the tasks with
launchctl
and delete the .plist
files.
To create more advanced customizations to your background tasks,
see launchctl.plist(5) for more information.
BACKGROUND MAINTENANCE ON WINDOWS SYSTEMS
Windows does not support cron
and instead has its own system for
scheduling background tasks. The git maintenance start
command
uses the schtasks
command to submit tasks to this system. You can
inspect all background tasks using the Task Scheduler
application. The tasks added by Git have names of the form Git
Maintenance (<frequency>)
. The Task Scheduler GUI has ways to
inspect these tasks, but you can also export the tasks to XML
files and view the details there.
Note that since Git is a console application, these background
tasks create a console window visible to the current user. This
can be changed manually by selecting the "Run whether user is
logged in or not" option in Task Scheduler. This change requires
a password input, which is why git maintenance start
does not
select it by default.
If you want to customize the background tasks, please rename the
tasks so future calls to git maintenance (start|stop)
do not
overwrite your custom tasks.