From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:13:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gc: call "prune --expire 2.weeks.ago"
Message-ID: <7vskywadum.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803112157560.3873@racer.site>

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

> If "--prune" is passed to gc, it still just calls "git prune".
> Otherwise, "prune --expire 2.weeks.ago" is called, where the grace
> period is overrideable by the config variable gc.pruneExpire.

"What it does."

> While adding a test to t5304-prune.sh (since it really tests the
> implicit call to "prune"), the original test for "prune --expire"
> is moved there from t1410-reflog.sh, where it did not belong.

"What the fallouts from this change were."

> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Can we also have "why this is a good idea", "what problem this solves"?