From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Eric Raible" <raible@gmail.com>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Wincent Colaiuta" <win@wincent.com>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Nicolas Pitre" <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-gc: skip stashes when expiring reflogs
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:51:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vlk1az8aa.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <279b37b20806121335p90a6d40qb39b73f71dae990b@mail.gmail.com> (Eric Raible's message of "Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:35:10 -0700")
"Eric Raible" <raible@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> writes:
>>
>>> So yes, branches _are_ better and more appropriate for long term
>>> storage than stashes, but even so I don't think it's right for us to
>>> risk throwing away information that the user explicitly stashed and
>>> expected Git to look after for them.
>>
>> Yes, but for a limited amount of time.
>
> A limited amount of time? Why is that? Can you give a rationale which
> at least addresses Wincent's points?
Perhaps
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/84665/focus=84670
The user explicitly asks to stash it for a while, where the definition of
the "while" comes from reflog's retention period.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-12 20:52 UTC|newest]
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2008-06-11 21:29 ` [PATCH 2/2] git-gc: skip stashes when expiring reflogs Brandon Casey
2008-06-11 21:36 ` Mike Hommey
2008-06-11 21:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-11 23:03 ` Jeff King
2008-06-11 23:21 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-06-12 4:32 ` Eric Raible
2008-06-12 5:35 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-06-12 14:14 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-06-12 20:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-12 20:35 ` Eric Raible
2008-06-12 20:51 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-06-12 21:36 ` Eric Raible
2008-06-13 4:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-13 8:43 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-06-13 9:13 ` Jeff King
2008-06-13 21:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-13 23:33 ` Christian Jaeger
2008-06-14 8:58 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-06-14 23:59 ` しらいしななこ
[not found] ` <200806142359.m5ENxsBL028758@mi0.bluebottle.com>
2008-06-15 4:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <200806142359.m5ENxsBI028758 @mi0.bluebottle.com>
2008-06-15 5:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-16 3:33 ` Eric Raible
2008-06-16 7:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-17 9:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-17 21:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-18 15:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-06-18 18:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-16 16:30 ` Brandon Casey
2008-06-16 16:52 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-13 12:05 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-06-12 21:27 ` Brandon Casey
2008-06-12 21:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-12 22:10 ` Brandon Casey
2008-06-13 3:45 ` しらいしななこ
2008-06-13 4:26 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-06-13 5:58 ` Jeff King
2008-06-13 7:16 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-06-13 7:42 ` Jeff King
2008-06-13 8:11 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-06-13 8:51 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-13 8:56 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-06-13 9:10 ` Jeff King
2008-06-13 11:14 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-13 9:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-13 10:05 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-06-13 10:33 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-06-13 17:31 ` Olivier Marin
2008-06-13 19:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-13 19:35 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-06-13 19:42 ` Brandon Casey
2008-06-13 19:49 ` Olivier Marin
2008-06-14 1:16 ` しらいしななこ
2008-06-13 12:40 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-06-13 13:11 ` Jeff King
2008-06-13 17:03 ` Olivier Marin
2008-06-13 13:54 ` Jon Loeliger
2008-06-13 16:54 ` Brandon Casey
2008-06-11 23:25 ` Brandon Casey
2008-06-12 4:18 ` Jeff King
2008-06-12 16:46 ` Brandon Casey
2008-06-13 5:48 ` Jeff King
2008-06-13 8:41 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-06-13 8:53 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-06-13 9:07 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-06-13 9:04 ` Jeff King
2008-06-13 11:22 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-13 16:43 ` Brandon Casey
2008-06-13 17:30 ` Jeff King
2008-06-11 22:35 ` Brandon Casey
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