Re: [(not so) random thoughts] using git as its own caching tool

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Dec 12, 2007, 16:03 UTC
Message-ID: <47600634.3030207@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <20071212154848.GA19294@glandium.org>

Mike Hommey wrote:

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> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 04:35:19PM +0100, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
>> A bit of both ;-)
>>
>> I like the idea to use the git object store, because that certainly
>> has an API that can't be done away with by user config. The reflog
>> and its expiration mechanism is subject to human control though, and
>> everyone doesn't even have them enabled. I don't for some repos where
>> I know I'll create a thousand-and-one loose objects by rebasing,
>> --amend'ing and otherwise fiddling with history rewrites.
>>
>> Having a tool that works on some repos but not on others because it
>> relies on me living with an auto-gc after pretty much every operation
>> would be very tiresome indeed.
> 
> There is already a tool that relies on reflogs: stash.
>

No, "git stash save" works anyway. It's when you want to use multiple stashes that it becomes tricky, but even that works if you're willing to put some effort into it (although I don't use stash a lot, and not at all in the very rebase-heavy ones).

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