Re: fatal: bad numeric config value '60 days' for 'gc.rerereresolved': invalid unit

> Uwe Hausbrand <uwe.hausbrand@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> seems like there is a bug with "git rerere gc" not understanding grace
>> periods like "60 days" defined in the config.
>>
>> What I did:
>>
>> git config gc.rerereresolved "60 days"
>
> Let's see how the variable is explained in the documentation.
>
>     gc.rerereResolved::
>             Records of conflicted merge you resolved earlier are
>             kept for this many days when 'git rerere gc' is run.
>             The default is 60 days.  See linkgit:git-rerere[1].
>
> Notice that "for this many days" tries to (and probably
> unsuccessfully) tell you that this variable is expected to be set to
> an integer [*1*], counted in "days".  IOW, you'd want "60" instead.
>
> Having said that, it may not be a bad idea to enumerate these
> "expected to be an integer that counts in some unit" variables that
> are described in a similar way (i.e. look for "this many" in
> Documentation/config.txt), and then for each of them that could be
> counted in different unit (e.g. it is not outrageously wrong to
> expect that you could specify that rerere records that are older
> than 3 months are expired):
>
>  - decide what kind of quantity the variable specifies (e.g. "this
>    many days" and "this many seconds" variables are giving a
>    "timeperiod").
>
>  - keep the code that reacts to an integer without any unit to
>    behave the same (e.g. "[gc] rerereresolved = 30" will keep
>    meaning "30 days");
>
>  - extend the code so that when the value given is not an integer,
>    it tries to parse it as a specification for the expected quantity
>    (e.g. "this many days" and "this many seconds" variables would
>    understand if you said "60 days" or "2 months")
>
>
> [Footnote]
>
>  *1* I think we actually expect a scaled integer whenever we expect
>      an integral value, so you probably could say "6k" to specify
>      "6,000 days"; "days" not being any of the recognised unit
>      suffix like k, M, G, etc. is where "invalid unit" comes from.