From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:13:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add "--expire <time>" option to 'git prune'
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711291613260.27959@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071129151211.GB32296@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Jeff King wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 02:21:23PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > This patch adds a mode to expire only loose, unreachable objects
> > which are older than a certain time.  For example, by
> > 
> > 	git prune --expire 14.days
> > 
> > you can prune only those objects which are loose, unreachable
> > and older than 14 days (and thus probably outdated).
> 
> Does this now make git-prune safe for automatic running?
> 
> I suppose you could still be actively manipulating refs that point to
> very old objects.

That's why I want to have it configurable from git-gc.

Ciao,
Dscho