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

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:29:56PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote:
> The stash makes use of git's reflog mechanism, but it is not a reflog
> in the traditional sense. Each entry is a state that the user explicitly
> requested git to remember. The stash is generally short-lived, but the
> user probably expects that a stash will continue to exist until it is
> explicitly deleted. So we should not expire stash entries.

I wonder if it wouldn't make sense to have git reflog expire not expire
stashes *at all*. I mean, you don't necessarily cleanup your repo with
git gc, and you may end up killing your stashes with git reflog yourself
if you don't use the "magic" --exclude...

Mike