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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>,
	Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] refs.c: Write reflogs for notes just like for branch heads
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 20:16:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100402001640.GH16462@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3mxxpipqw.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 12:18:16PM -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> > > 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...

Thanks, I didn't know about that feature. I just posted my series
without dealing with the reflogs at all, but I think it may be sensible
to drop the default for "refs/notes/textconv" in a followup patch.

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2010-04-02  0:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-29 13:05 [PATCH 1/2] t3301-notes: Test the creation of reflog entries Michael J Gruber
2010-03-29 13:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] refs.c: Write reflogs for notes just like for branch heads Michael J Gruber
2010-03-29 14:25   ` Johan Herland
2010-03-30 17:19     ` Jeff King
2010-03-30 18:00       ` Johan Herland
2010-03-30 19:18         ` Jakub Narebski
2010-04-02  0:16           ` Jeff King [this message]

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