From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Raible Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-gc: skip stashes when expiring reflogs Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:32:40 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <5vuJsx6Kidj7e8EABk_d63dLAYuWF-S880RrJKu83cJo_ejU3VN-VA@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil> <20080611213648.GA13362@glandium.org> <20080611230344.GD19474@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 12 06:34:01 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 1K6eVc-0006gS-9D for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:34:00 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751093AbYFLEdA (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:33:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751260AbYFLEdA (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:33:00 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:37309 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751045AbYFLEc7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:32:59 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1K6eUV-0007Qp-A8 for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:32:51 +0000 Received: from adsl-67-121-115-243.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net ([67.121.115.243]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:32:51 +0000 Received: from raible by adsl-67-121-115-243.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:32:51 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 67.121.115.243 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Nicolas Pitre cam.org> writes: > As you say, branches are there just for that: keeping changes for > months. Stashes are not meant to be used like that nor should we > encourage it. This unfortunately goes against the recommended usage in John Wiegley's otherwise excellent "Git From the Bottom Up". I've contacted him separately to make him aware of the collective wisdom of not relying on stashes for long-term storage. - Eric