maintenance: update schedule before config

When running 'git maintenance start', the current pattern is to
configure global config settings to enable maintenance on the current
repository and set 'maintenance.auto' to false and _then_ to set up the
schedule with the system scheduler.

This has a problematic error condition: if the scheduler fails to
initialize, the repository still will not use automatic maintenance due
to the 'maintenance.auto' setting.

Fix this gap by swapping the order of operations. If Git fails to
initialize maintenance, then the config changes should never happen.

Reported-by: Phillip Wood <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: derrickstolee

builtin/gc.c

@@ -2728,9 +2728,12 @@ static int maintenance_start(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	opts.scheduler = resolve_scheduler(opts.scheduler);
 	validate_scheduler(opts.scheduler);
 
+	if (update_background_schedule(&opts, 1))
+		die(_("failed to set up maintenance schedule"));
+
 	if (maintenance_register(ARRAY_SIZE(register_args)-1, register_args, NULL))
 		warning(_("failed to add repo to global config"));
-	return update_background_schedule(&opts, 1);
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static const char *const builtin_maintenance_stop_usage[] = {

t/t7900-maintenance.sh

@@ -849,4 +849,17 @@ test_expect_success 'register and unregister bare repo' '
 	)
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'failed schedule prevents config change' '
+	git init --bare failcase &&
+
+	for scheduler in crontab launchctl schtasks systemctl
+	do
+		GIT_TEST_MAINT_SCHEDULER="$scheduler:false" &&
+		export GIT_TEST_MAINT_SCHEDULER &&
+		test_must_fail \
+			git -C failcase maintenance start &&
+		test_must_fail git -C failcase config maintenance.auto || return 1
+	done
+'
+
 test_done