Re: [PATCH v4] gc: call "prune --expire 2.weeks.ago" by default
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
> > ---prune::
>
> I am fairly paranoid about end users wondering about what is described in
> ancient documentation and complaining that we do not talk about it
> anymore. I am tempted to suggest:
>
> This is a no-op but you may see it mentioned in older docs and
> scripts. Older git-gc never ran 'prune' without being told, and
> this option was a way to tell it to.
>
> but this would lead to littering the documentation with too much
> historical information in the long run. I dunno. I am inclined to favor
> the removal as your patch did, but somebody else may have clever ideas.
Historical notes of that sort belong in RelNotes.
Nicolas