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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: why is git destructive by default? (i suggest it not be!)
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:17:41 -0400 (EDT)
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On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, David Jeske wrote:

> I've heard from a couple users that the solution to these problems is to "go
> dig what you need out of the log, it's still in there". However, it's only in
> there until the log is garbage collected. This either means they are
> destructive operations, or we expect "running without ever collecting the log"
> to be a valid mode of operation... which I doubt is the case.

Why not?

> Question: How about assuring ALL operations can be done non-destructivly by
> default?

	git config --global gc.reflogexpire "2 years"


Nicolas