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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gc: call "prune --expire 2.weeks.ago" by default
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Hi,

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Brandon Casey wrote:

> I think git-prune is seldomly used by normal users for the reasons Dscho 
> described, and I think once the behavior implemented by his patch 
> becomes standard it will never be used by normal users (except the ones 
> who always use --prune for the reasons Geert Bosch described, and 
> they'll probably want the new behavior). So I think git-prune will sink 
> a little lower into plumbing and common users won't need to know 
> anything about pruning, and only sophisticated users will need to know 
> git-prune.

But because we are nice people, we will deprecate --prune before we remove 
it, should we go that route at all.

Ciao,
Dscho