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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] gc: call "prune --expire 2.weeks.ago" by default
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:40:00 -0400 (EDT)
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Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > ---prune::
> 
> I am fairly paranoid about end users wondering about what is described in
> ancient documentation and complaining that we do not talk about it
> anymore.  I am tempted to suggest:
> 
> 	This is a no-op but you may see it mentioned in older docs and
> 	scripts.  Older git-gc never ran 'prune' without being told, and
> 	this option was a way to tell it to.
> 
> but this would lead to littering the documentation with too much
> historical information in the long run.  I dunno.  I am inclined to favor
> the removal as your patch did, but somebody else may have clever ideas.

Historical notes of that sort belong in RelNotes.


Nicolas