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Re: [PATCH 2/2] reflog: ignore expire-unreachable for "HEAD" reflog

From
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
Apr 15, 2010, 12:58 UTC
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Am 4/15/2010 14:30, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
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> A reflog consists of entries, each of which records how you got to the
> current history by pointing to different commit objects.  Some entries
> matter more than others do.  Dead-end experiments stop mattering faster
> than others.  It is these _entries_ that we expire, because keeping them
> indefinitely is a wasteful clutter.

I have no problem with this point of view, i.e., that expiration is merely about the entries, and that garbage-collecting objects is just a side-effect of removed entries.

But I don't see yet, why an entry pointing to a dead-end experiment is less important when it is an entry in a branch reflog than when it is an entry in the HEAD reflog. Care to explain?

-- Hannes
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  3. Johannes SixtApr 15, 2010
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2010
  5. Johannes SixtApr 15, 2010
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  8. Jeff KingApr 15, 2010
  9. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2010
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