From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:35:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gc: call "prune --expire 2.weeks.ago" by default
Message-ID: <7vejaf65q0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <47D83C53.7000602@nrlssc.navy.mil>

Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> writes:

> I am not suggesting that git-gc stop parsing --prune and instead start
> erroring out on it. If it is ok to change the behavior of git-gc, it
> seems like it is ok to change the behavior of 'git-gc --prune' in the
> same way, especially if the change makes it less destructive.

Yeah, gc.pruneexpire does sound like it applies to both implicit ones and
explicit ones, doesn't it?  I think your suggestion makes sense.