Re: [PATCH 2/2] refs.c: Write reflogs for notes just like for branch heads

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 30, 2010, 19:18 UTC
Message-ID: <m3mxxpipqw.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <201003302000.35616.johan@herland.net>

Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:

> On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Jeff King wrote:

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> > I like the idea of having a reflog, just because you could use it to
> > salvage an old cache if you were playing around with your helper's
> > options (or debugging your helper :) ). The usual 90-day expiration
> > time is perhaps too long, though.
> 
> Yes, 90 days as a default might be excessive, but you can always 
> override it with a "git gc --prune=now"...

You can always set different expire time for notes by using

  [gc "refs/notes"]
        reflogExpire = 7 # days, I suppose

Which is not documented (I have found it in RelNotes-1.6.0.txt). Oh well...

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Jakub Narebski
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