From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:48:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [(not so) random thoughts] using git as its own caching tool
Message-ID: <20071212154848.GA19294@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <475FFFB7.4010102@op5.se>

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 04:35:19PM +0100, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
> A bit of both ;-)
> 
> I like the idea to use the git object store, because that certainly
> has an API that can't be done away with by user config. The reflog
> and its expiration mechanism is subject to human control though, and
> everyone doesn't even have them enabled. I don't for some repos where
> I know I'll create a thousand-and-one loose objects by rebasing,
> --amend'ing and otherwise fiddling with history rewrites.
> 
> Having a tool that works on some repos but not on others because it
> relies on me living with an auto-gc after pretty much every operation
> would be very tiresome indeed.

There is already a tool that relies on reflogs: stash.

Mike