Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-gc: skip stashes when expiring reflogs

> 
>  OTOH: I dislike the idea of 'forcing' the users to go through their
> stashes lest they lose their work. I don't see why anybody would want
> to do some work, stash it, and then "for no apparent reason" (the
> reason being not touching it for some time) lose it later.

> What if
> their system borks up and gives a wrong value as current time (say, 10
> years in the future), all of a sudden their stashes are gone, and they
> might not even find out till it was too late. Sure, they'd lose some
> stale objects too, but that I can live with, those they did not ask
> git to take care of explicitly!

> The per-branch stashes sounds very nice, especially if you can get a
> 'git stash list --all' feature, that shows all stashes, regardless of
> what branch they are on. I myself would use such a per-branch feature
> most of the time, it would be nice to have a config option that
> defaults to that (making 'git stash' create a per-branch stash by
> default that is).