From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:36:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-gc: skip stashes when expiring reflogs
Message-ID: <20080611213648.GA13362@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <5vuJsx6Kidj7e8EABk_d63dLAYuWF-S880RrJKu83cJo_ejU3VN-VA@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:29:56PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote:
> The stash makes use of git's reflog mechanism, but it is not a reflog
> in the traditional sense. Each entry is a state that the user explicitly
> requested git to remember. The stash is generally short-lived, but the
> user probably expects that a stash will continue to exist until it is
> explicitly deleted. So we should not expire stash entries.

I wonder if it wouldn't make sense to have git reflog expire not expire
stashes *at all*. I mean, you don't necessarily cleanup your repo with
git gc, and you may end up killing your stashes with git reflog yourself
if you don't use the "magic" --exclude...

Mike