From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miles Bader Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-gc: skip stashes when expiring reflogs Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:14:37 +0900 Message-ID: References: <20080611230344.GD19474@sigill.intra.peff.net> <6413041E-A64A-4BF4-9ECF-F7BFA5C1EAEF@wincent.com> <4851F6F4.8000503@op5.se> <20080613055800.GA26768@sigill.intra.peff.net> <48521EDA.5040802@op5.se> <20080613074257.GA513@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20080613091040.GB4474@sigill.intra.peff.net> Reply-To: Miles Bader Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: sverre@rabbelier.nl, Andreas Ericsson , Wincent Colaiuta , Eric Raible , Git Mailing List , Nicolas Pitre To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 13 13:16:05 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K77GG-0004kD-Lb for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:16:05 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754278AbYFMLPI (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:15:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753914AbYFMLPH (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:15:07 -0400 Received: from TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]:36531 "EHLO tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754134AbYFMLPG (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:15:06 -0400 Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.46]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m5DBEcsW009428; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:14:38 +0900 (JST) Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.20] [10.29.19.20]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:14:38 +0900 Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.112.215] [10.114.112.215]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:14:38 +0900 Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id DC6024E7; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:14:37 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <20080613091040.GB4474@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:10:40 -0400") Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King writes: > 2. You don't need perfect foresight. Sometime in the thirty days (but > probably about 5 minutes later) you realize "oh, this is some > stashed work that I'm not going to deal with for a while" and you > promote it to a topic branch. That's exactly the sort of thing that people end up forgetting to do, even if they know they know about and understand the issue -- and of course many (most?) people will be using stashes _without_ knowing about this issue. I suspect both types will be pretty annoyed when they realize their work disappeared... -Miles -- `To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems' --Homer J. Simpson