Re: [PATCH v2] reflog: fix default expiry periods

[Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 12:26:51PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Pushkar Singh <pushkarkumarsingh1970@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > The default reflog expiry periods were swapped when they were moved to
> > REFLOG_EXPIRE_OPTIONS_INIT() by 85658275702b (builtin/reflog: stop storing
> > default reflog expiry dates globally).
> >
> > This caused reachable entries to expire after 30 days instead of 90 days,
> > and unreachable entries after 90 days instead of 30 days.
> >
> > Reported-by: r.norouzi <r.norouzi@proton.me>
> > Signed-off-by: Pushkar Singh <pushkarkumarsingh1970@gmail.com>
> > ---
> 
> The above reads very well.
> 
> >  #define REFLOG_EXPIRE_OPTIONS_INIT(now) { \
> > -	.default_expire_total = now - 30 * 24 * 3600, \
> > -	.default_expire_unreachable = now - 90 * 24 * 3600, \
> > +	.default_expire_total = now - 90 * 24 * 3600, \
> > +	.default_expire_unreachable = now - 30 * 24 * 3600, \
> >  }
> 
> and the fix is very straight-forward.

Is this something that we want to fast-track for Git 2.56?

Patrick