Re: [PATCH v4] gc: call "prune --expire 2.weeks.ago" by default

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 13, 2008, 11:11 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803131210110.1656@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <4F997D24-1853-4B53-9865-F456ECA43FD7@wincent.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:

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> El 12/3/2008, a las 21:55, Johannes Schindelin escribió:
> 
> >Alas, git-prune recently learnt the option --expire <minimum-age>, 
> >which makes it a much safer operation.  This allows us to call prune 
> >from git-gc, with a grace period of 2 weeks for the unreferenced loose 
> >objects (this value was determined in a discussion on the git list as a 
> >safe one).
> 
> Just a really minor quibble: I don't think you mean "alas" here; "alas" 
> basically means "unfortunately" or "regrettably".

No, I really meant "alas" here, since it is more of a sigh. The sigh is because I had expected somebody else to care more than me about it, and I had done the --expire patch already.

Ciao, Dscho