From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:57:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] reflog: ignore expire-unreachable for "HEAD" reflog
Message-ID: <7vhbnck618.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100415163607.GA4279@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I think another way of addressing the same problem would be to redefine
> "reachable" in this context as "reachable from any current ref".

I tend to agree, but I haven't thought through the case for entries that
point at commits on detached HEAD.  My gut feeling is that unless they are
connected to a real ref by now after all these expireunreachable days,
they are "failed experiments" and deserve to get pruned, so "from any ref"