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

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 13, 2008, 10:05 UTC
Message-ID: <m3ej71r6ob.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <7vtzfxwtt0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

>  * We however chose to take advantage of the auto reclamation behaviour of
>    reflog, and for most practical purposes, it is a good thing.

By the way, this makes stashes a bit similar to using $TMPDIR to store files with 'tmpwatch' (or equivalent) enabled. Is this a good analogy?

[...]

> But let's not talk nor think about per-branch stash for now.  How does the
> "keep" thing sound to people?

This looks nice, although I'd rather not use any magic. I'm only afraid that people would notice that some stash / stash entry should have been "kept" when it is too late.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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