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

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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I'm divided on this:
 OOH: I like the idea of having a keep command to mark stashes as
valuable, making them not expire until dropped explicitly. Such a
feature would also encourage user to go through their stashes every
now and then and decide which ones are valuable, and which ones were
indeed not that valuable and may be dropped.

 OTOH: I dislike the idea of 'forcing' the users to go through their
stashes lest they lose their work. I don't see why anybody would want
to do some work, stash it, and then "for no apparent reason" (the
reason being not touching it for some time) lose it later. What if
their system borks up and gives a wrong value as current time (say, 10
years in the future), all of a sudden their stashes are gone, and they
might not even find out till it was too late. Sure, they'd lose some
stale objects too, but that I can live with, those they did not ask
git to take care of explicitly!

The per-branch stashes sounds very nice, especially if you can get a 'git stash list --all' feature, that shows all stashes, regardless of what branch they are on. I myself would use such a per-branch feature most of the time, it would be nice to have a config option that defaults to that (making 'git stash' create a per-branch stash by default that is).