Re: [PATCH 2/2] refs.c: Write reflogs for notes just like for branch heads
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- Date
- Apr 2, 2010, 00:16 UTC
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- <20100402001640.GH16462@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:18:16PM -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> > > I like the idea of having a reflog, just because you could use it to > > > salvage an old cache if you were playing around with your helper's > > > options (or debugging your helper :) ). The usual 90-day expiration > > > time is perhaps too long, though. > > > > Yes, 90 days as a default might be excessive, but you can always > > override it with a "git gc --prune=now"... > > You can always set different expire time for notes by using > > [gc "refs/notes"] > reflogExpire = 7 # days, I suppose > > Which is not documented (I have found it in RelNotes-1.6.0.txt). > Oh well...
Thanks, I didn't know about that feature. I just posted my series without dealing with the reflogs at all, but I think it may be sensible to drop the default for "refs/notes/textconv" in a followup patch.
-Peff