Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-gc: skip stashes when expiring reflogs

> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:29:56PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote:
> > The stash makes use of git's reflog mechanism, but it is not a reflog 
> > in the traditional sense. Each entry is a state that the user 
> > explicitly requested git to remember. The stash is generally 
> > short-lived, but the user probably expects that a stash will continue 
> > to exist until it is explicitly deleted. So we should not expire stash 
> > entries.
> 
> I wonder if it wouldn't make sense to have git reflog expire not expire 
> stashes *at all*. I mean, you don't necessarily cleanup your repo with 
> git gc, and you may end up killing your stashes with git reflog yourself 
> if you don't use the "magic" --exclude...