From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wincent Colaiuta Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] gc: call "prune --expire 2.weeks.ago" by default Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:21:21 +0100 Message-ID: <4F997D24-1853-4B53-9865-F456ECA43FD7@wincent.com> References: <7vskywadum.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <47D8193B.901@nrlssc.navy.mil> <47D83532.70103@nrlssc.navy.mil> <47D83C53.7000602@nrlssc.navy.mil> <7vejaf65q0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Junio C Hamano , Brandon Casey , Jakub Narebski , Nicolas Pitre , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 13 10:23:21 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JZjef-0003av-Ro for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:23:18 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751280AbYCMJWV convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:22:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750929AbYCMJWU (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:22:20 -0400 Received: from wincent.com ([72.3.236.74]:38739 "EHLO s69819.wincent.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750783AbYCMJWU convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:22:20 -0400 Received: from cuzco.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by s69819.wincent.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m2D9Liti002933; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:21:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: El 12/3/2008, a las 21:55, Johannes Schindelin escribi=F3: > Alas, git-prune recently learnt the option --expire , =20 > which > makes it a much safer operation. This allows us to call prune from =20 > git-gc, > with a grace period of 2 weeks for the unreferenced loose objects =20 > (this > value was determined in a discussion on the git list as a safe one). Just a really minor quibble: I don't think you mean "alas" here; =20 "alas" basically means "unfortunately" or "regrettably". Cheers, Wincent