From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:13:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-gc: skip stashes when expiring reflogs
Message-ID: <20080613091304.GC4474@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <0F87000C-B51E-45B8-A21D-1DA184BD603F@wincent.com>

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:43:59AM +0200, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:

> While this may be true for codebases which move forward quickly, what  
> about one which is basically finished and tends not to get touched in a 
> long time. A situation arises, you stash something, the phone rings, and 
> for whatever reason the stash gets forgotten and you don't revisit the 
> project at all for days, weeks, months. It wouldn't be nice to eventually 
> come back and discover that your in-progress work had been "garbage" 
> collected for you.

I think this argues more for increasing the expiration period on
reflogs, if your project moves very slowly.

-Peff