From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:03:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-gc: skip stashes when expiring reflogs
Message-ID: <20080611230344.GD19474@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806112242370.1783@racer>

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:44:17PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> FWIW I thought it was one of the clever designs of git-stash that it 
> automatically expires together with the other reflogs.  A stash is only a 
> temporary thing, that is not even meant to leave the local repository, 
> after all.

I agree. If you are concerned about valuable stashes getting deleted, my
guess is one of:

  - you would like reflog expiration to be longer

  - you are using stash as a long-term storage, which it was never
    intended for. Use a branch.

The latter, of course, is based on my use and my impression of others
use (I almost always apply a stash within 30 seconds of having stashed
it). So maybe everyone is keeping stashes around for months, and this is
a useful change.

-Peff