From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:33:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gc: make --prune useful again by accepting an optional parameter
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In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902142306400.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> With this patch, "git gc --no-prune" will not prune any loose (and
> dangling) object, and "git gc --prune=5.minutes.ago" will prune
> all loose objects older than 5 minutes.
>
> This patch benefitted from suggestions by Thomas Rast and Jan Krüger.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Thanks.

Being able to say --no-$opt to an OPT_STRING to NULLify a variable that
has non-NULL default value is somewhat amusing ;-)