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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] gc: call "prune --expire 2.weeks.ago" by default
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:11:01 +0100 (CET)
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Hi,

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:

> El 12/3/2008, a las 21:55, Johannes Schindelin escribió:
> 
> >Alas, git-prune recently learnt the option --expire <minimum-age>, 
> >which makes it a much safer operation.  This allows us to call prune 
> >from git-gc, with a grace period of 2 weeks for the unreferenced loose 
> >objects (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; "alas" 
> basically means "unfortunately" or "regrettably".

No, I really meant "alas" here, since it is more of a sigh.  The sigh is 
because I had expected somebody else to care more than me about it, and I 
had done the --expire patch already.

Ciao,
Dscho

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