From: Miles Bader Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:14:37 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-gc: skip stashes when expiring reflogs Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080613091040.GB4474@sigill.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > 2. You don't need perfect foresight. Sometime in the thirty days (but > probably about 5 minutes later) you realize "oh, this is some > stashed work that I'm not going to deal with for a while" and you > promote it to a topic branch. That's exactly the sort of thing that people end up forgetting to do, even if they know they know about and understand the issue -- and of course many (most?) people will be using stashes _without_ knowing about this issue. I suspect both types will be pretty annoyed when they realize their work disappeared... -Miles -- `To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems' --Homer J. Simpson