From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:17:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bash completion: remove deprecated --prune from git-gc
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0812141216120.2014@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <20081214111213.GA6499@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Jeff King wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:38:17AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > > -		__gitcomp "--prune --aggressive"
> > > +		__gitcomp "--aggressive"
> > git gc --prune is deprecated?  That's news to me.
> 
> Check out 9e7d501 (builtin-gc.c: deprecate --prune, it now really has no
> effect, 2008-05-09).
> 
> Which annoyingly has no discussion about _why_ it no longer has an
> effect. But I suspect it has something to do with 25ee973 (gc: call
> "prune --expire 2.weeks.ago" by default, 2008-03-12) by you.

Oops.

But I thought that git gc --prune does expire _all_ dangling loose 
objects _now_, not with --expire 2.weeks.ago.

Ciao,
Dscho