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Re: Gnome chose Git

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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date
Mar 20, 2009, 08:33 UTC
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Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 19.03.2009 21:14:
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> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:50:39AM -0600, Pat Notz wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Why are people reinventing the reflog, and core.logallrefupdates ?
>>>
>>
>> Hmmm, lack of awareness of core.logallrefupdates in my case.  Thanks
>> for the pointer.
> 
> But do note that reflogs expire eventually, so you will want to also
> look at gc.reflogexpire and gc.reflogexpireunreachable if you want to
> keep this as an activity log forever.
> 
> -Peff

In any case, reflogs are local. I would assume that accountability tracking should be public and transparent. Depends on the use case, of course.

Michael
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  2. Sverre RabbelierMar 19, 2009
  3. Mike RalphsonMar 19, 2009
  4. Andreas EricssonMar 19, 2009
  5. Michael J GruberMar 19, 2009
  6. Pat NotzMar 19, 2009
  7. Shawn O. PearceMar 19, 2009
  8. Pat NotzMar 19, 2009
  9. Jeff KingMar 19, 2009
  10. demerphqMar 19, 2009
  11. Shawn O. PearceMar 19, 2009
  12. Shawn O. PearceMar 19, 2009
  13. demerphqMar 19, 2009
  14. Shawn O. PearceMar 19, 2009
  15. demerphqMar 19, 2009
  16. Johannes SchindelinMar 19, 2009
  17. demerphqMar 19, 2009
  18. Jeff KingMar 20, 2009
  19. make oneline reflog dates more consistent with multiline formatJeff King, Mar 20, 2009
  20. Michael J GruberMar 20, 2009
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