maintenance: use launchctl on macOS

The existing mechanism for scheduling background maintenance is done
through cron. The 'crontab -e' command allows updating the schedule
while cron itself runs those commands. While this is technically
supported by macOS, it has some significant deficiencies:

1. Every run of 'crontab -e' must request elevated privileges through
   the user interface. When running 'git maintenance start' from the
   Terminal app, it presents a dialog box saying "Terminal.app would
   like to administer your computer. Administration can include
   modifying passwords, networking, and system settings." This is more
   alarming than what we are hoping to achieve. If this alert had some
   information about how "git" is trying to run "crontab" then we would
   have some reason to believe that this dialog might be fine. However,
   it also doesn't help that some scenarios just leave Git waiting for
   a response without presenting anything to the user. I experienced
   this when executing the command from a Bash terminal view inside
   Visual Studio Code.

2. While cron initializes a user environment enough for "git config
   --global --show-origin" to show the correct config file information,
   it does not set up the environment enough for Git Credential Manager
   Core to load credentials during a 'prefetch' task. My prefetches
   against private repositories required re-authenticating through UI
   pop-ups in a way that should not be required.

The solution is to switch from cron to the Apple-recommended [1]
'launchd' tool.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/Chapters/ScheduledJobs.html

The basics of this tool is that we need to create XML-formatted
"plist" files inside "~/Library/LaunchAgents/" and then use the
'launchctl' tool to make launchd aware of them. The plist files
include all of the scheduling information, along with the command-line
arguments split across an array of <string> tags.

For example, here is my plist file for the weekly scheduled tasks:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0"><dict>
<key>Label</key><string>org.git-scm.git.weekly</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/local/libexec/git-core/git</string>
<string>--exec-path=/usr/local/libexec/git-core</string>
<string>for-each-repo</string>
<string>--config=maintenance.repo</string>
<string>maintenance</string>
<string>run</string>
<string>--schedule=weekly</string>
</array>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>Day</key><integer>0</integer>
<key>Hour</key><integer>0</integer>
<key>Minute</key><integer>0</integer>
</dict>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>

The schedules for the daily and hourly tasks are more complicated
since we need to use an array for the StartCalendarInterval with
an entry for each of the six days other than the 0th day (to avoid
colliding with the weekly task), and each of the 23 hours other
than the 0th hour (to avoid colliding with the daily task).

The "Label" value is currently filled with "org.git-scm.git.X"
where X is the frequency. We need a different plist file for each
frequency.

The launchctl command needs to be aligned with a user id in order
to initialize the command environment. This must be done using
the 'launchctl bootstrap' subcommand. This subcommand is new as
of macOS 10.11, which was released in September 2015. Before that
release the 'launchctl load' subcommand was recommended. The best
source of information on this transition I have seen is available
at [2]. The current design does not preclude a future version that
detects the available fatures of 'launchctl' to use the older
commands. However, it is best to rely on the newest version since
Apple might completely remove the deprecated version on short
notice.

[2] https://babodee.wordpress.com/2016/04/09/launchctl-2-0-syntax/

To remove a schedule, we must run 'launchctl bootout' with a valid
plist file. We also need to 'bootout' a task before the 'bootstrap'
subcommand will succeed, if such a task already exists.

The need for a user id requires us to run 'id -u' which works on
POSIX systems but not Windows. Further, the need for fully-qualitifed
path names including $HOME behaves differently in the Git internals and
the external test suite. The $HOME variable starts with "C:\..." instead
of the "/c/..." that is provided by Git in these subcommands. The test
therefore has a prerequisite that we are not on Windows. The cross-
platform logic still allows us to test the macOS logic on a Linux
machine.

We can verify the commands that were run by 'git maintenance start'
and 'git maintenance stop' by injecting a script that writes the
command-line arguments into GIT_TEST_MAINT_SCHEDULER.

An earlier version of this patch accidentally had an opening
"<dict>" tag when it should have had a closing "</dict>" tag. This
was caught during manual testing with actual 'launchctl' commands,
but we do not want to update developers' tasks when running tests.
It appears that macOS includes the "xmllint" tool which can verify
the XML format. This is useful for any system that might contain
the tool, so use it whenever it is available.

We strive to make these tests work on all platforms, but Windows caused
some headaches. In particular, the value of getuid() called by the C
code is not guaranteed to be the same as `$(id -u)` invoked by a test.
This is because `git.exe` is a native Windows program, whereas the
utility programs run by the test script mostly utilize the MSYS2 runtime,
which emulates a POSIX-like environment. Since the purpose of the test
is to check that the input to the hook is well-formed, the actual user
ID is immaterial, thus we can work around the problem by making the the
test UID-agnostic. Another subtle issue is the $HOME environment
variable being a Windows-style path instead of a Unix-style path. We can
be more flexible here instead of expecting exact path matches.

Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 59 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t7900-maintenance.sh b/t/t7900-maintenance.sh
index eeb9391..adf24de 100755
--- a/t/t7900-maintenance.sh
+++ b/t/t7900-maintenance.sh
@@ -7,6 +7,19 @@ test_description='git maintenance builtin'
 GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH=0
 GIT_TEST_MULTI_PACK_INDEX=0
 
+test_lazy_prereq XMLLINT '
+	xmllint --version
+'
+
+test_xmllint () {
+	if test_have_prereq XMLLINT
+	then
+		xmllint --noout "$@"
+	else
+		true
+	fi
+}
+
 test_expect_success 'help text' '
 	test_expect_code 129 git maintenance -h 2>err &&
 	test_i18ngrep "usage: git maintenance <subcommand>" err &&
@@ -395,6 +408,52 @@ test_expect_success 'start preserves existing schedule' '
 	grep "Important information!" cron.txt
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'start and stop macOS maintenance' '
+	# ensure $HOME can be compared against hook arguments on all platforms
+	pfx=$(cd "$HOME" && pwd) &&
+
+	write_script print-args <<-\EOF &&
+	echo $* | sed "s:gui/[0-9][0-9]*:gui/[UID]:" >>args
+	EOF
+
+	rm -f args &&
+	GIT_TEST_MAINT_SCHEDULER=launchctl:./print-args git maintenance start &&
+
+	# start registers the repo
+	git config --get --global maintenance.repo "$(pwd)" &&
+
+	ls "$HOME/Library/LaunchAgents" >actual &&
+	cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
+	org.git-scm.git.daily.plist
+	org.git-scm.git.hourly.plist
+	org.git-scm.git.weekly.plist
+	EOF
+	test_cmp expect actual &&
+
+	rm -f expect &&
+	for frequency in hourly daily weekly
+	do
+		PLIST="$pfx/Library/LaunchAgents/org.git-scm.git.$frequency.plist" &&
+		test_xmllint "$PLIST" &&
+		grep schedule=$frequency "$PLIST" &&
+		echo "bootout gui/[UID] $PLIST" >>expect &&
+		echo "bootstrap gui/[UID] $PLIST" >>expect || return 1
+	done &&
+	test_cmp expect args &&
+
+	rm -f args &&
+	GIT_TEST_MAINT_SCHEDULER=launchctl:./print-args git maintenance stop &&
+
+	# stop does not unregister the repo
+	git config --get --global maintenance.repo "$(pwd)" &&
+
+	printf "bootout gui/[UID] $pfx/Library/LaunchAgents/org.git-scm.git.%s.plist\n" \
+		hourly daily weekly >expect &&
+	test_cmp expect args &&
+	ls "$HOME/Library/LaunchAgents" >actual &&
+	test_line_count = 0 actual
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'register preserves existing strategy' '
 	git config maintenance.strategy none &&
 	git maintenance register &&