Re: [PATCH] config: added --expiry-date type support

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 12, 2017, 14:22 UTC
Message-ID: <20171112142204.2nuhh726imqksdug@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20171112135553.GA10563@alpha.vpn.ikke.info>

On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 02:55:53PM +0100, Kevin Daudt wrote:

> What I'm also missing is a motivation on why you added this option,
> which should be part of your commit message. As far as I know, there is
> currently no config setting that expects a date format.

This patch came from submitGit, and there's a bit more at:

  https://github.com/git/git/pull/433

(though obviously that informatoin should go into the commit message).

We do parse expiration dates from config in a few places, like gc.reflogexpire, etc. There's no way for a script using git-config to do the same (either adding an option specific to the script, or trying to do some analysis on gc.reflogexpire).

-Peff