Johannes SchindelinIf you want to keep the reflogs around for a really long time, you should be able to say so:
$ git config gc.reflogExpire never
Now it works, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> ---
Guess how surprised I was when "gc.reflogExpire = never" triggered a pruning of _all_ reflogs! Happily, this was only in a test environment.
Another strange thing there is this: As an alternative, I set reflogExpire to "1970", which git interpreted as "now" (just like "never", before this patch). Another alternative was even worse: "1 Jan 1970". Because I am at +0100 right now, the debugger said this:
Breakpoint 1, cmd_reflog_expire (argc=1, argv=0xbfb92968, prefix=0x0) at builtin-reflog.c:307 307 if (!default_reflog_expire_unreachable) (gdb) p show_date(default_reflog_expire, 0, 0) $3 = 0x8113560 "Wed Dec 31 23:00:00 1969 +0000" (gdb) p default_reflog_expire $4 = 4294963696
IOW, if I had not looked at the timestamp, I would have thunk everything is fine, while "git reflog expire" again would have merrily removed _every_ reflog.
date.c | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
Show changes to date.c +7 −0
diff --git a/date.c b/date.c index 45b0b1d..59fe4f8 100644 --- a/date.c +++ b/date.c @@ -660,6 +660,12 @@ static void date_am(struct tm *tm, int *num) tm->tm_hour = (hour % 12); } +static void date_never(struct tm *tm, int *num) +{ + tm->tm_year = tm->tm_mon = tm->tm_mday = tm->tm_wday = tm->tm_yday + = tm->tm_hour = tm->tm_min = tm->tm_sec = 0; +} + static const struct special { const char *name; void (*fn)(struct tm *, int *); @@ -670,6 +676,7 @@ static const struct special { { "tea", date_tea }, { "PM", date_pm }, { "AM", date_am }, + { "never", date_never }, { NULL } };
-- 1.5.3.rc2.42.gda8d