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

From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
Date: Jun 13, 2008, 11:22 UTC
Message-ID: <buo4p7xtw9k.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080613054840.GA27122@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> So I think we are disagreeing not on how stashes should expire, but
> rather on what a stash _is_, and what it is useful for. And I am open to
> arguments that stashes are useful for longer-term storage. But I also
> find the expiration behavior useful

I don't think anybody is really arguing that stashes aren't _mostly_ useful for short-term storage.

I think the problem is that _sometimes_ stashes end up sticking around longer than people suspect, and this is not necessarily planned (or even intentional). I've done it -- I'll stash some changes "temporarily" in a little-used working directory, then end up doing something else and forgetting to re-apply the stash. I'll then revisit that working dir a long time later, wonder where my changes are, poke around a bit, and find them in the stash; no prob.

-Miles

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