From: Miles Bader Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:22:15 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-gc: skip stashes when expiring reflogs Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080613054840.GA27122@sigill.intra.peff.net> Jeff King 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 -- 80% of success is just showing up. --Woody Allen