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

From: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 21, 2017, 14:30 UTC
Message-ID: <CAN0heSrQv=TjjE_=9PC14Ob2dn9g4Qq0Vm+yPoh6hmGzd1W_Uw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAHNyMp8xeye8EvtOdrX34QVCDsBCu3aLQVdyGRTVqyHXjZ4FFQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 21 July 2017 at 14:59, Uwe Hausbrand <uwe.hausbrand@gmx.de> wrote:

> git config gc.rerereresolved "60 days"
> git gc
>
> results in:

[...]

> fatal: bad numeric config value '60 days' for 'gc.rerereresolved': invalid unit
> error: failed to run rerere

It's not entirely clear, but "man git-gc" does seem to suggest -- at least to me -- that one can say "60 days". Especially after reading about gc.reflogExpire a few paragraphs earlier, where "90 days" and "3 months" are given as examples. Luckily, "man git-config" is a bit clearer. It says that "records ... are kept for this many days". The latter matches the implementation and the tests, which are all written to work with just an integer.

So "git config gc.rerereresolved 60" should work. Hope that helps.

Martin