Re: how to squash commits

[Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>]

Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:

> Let's add the Git mailing list to the Cc list if someone there wants to
> comment. The whole thread is here:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.mercurial.general/13283/focus=13295
>
>
> On 2009-04-12 17:18 (+0200), Matthieu Moy wrote:
>
>> Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:
>>
>>> With the default settings user has 30 days to
>>> recover the branch's previous state,
>>
>> Actually, s/30 days/90 days/ according to "man git-gc".
>
> I understand it that objects which are not reachable form the tip of
> current branches are subject for garbage-collecting in 30 days. For
> example, let's say we are in "master" branch and do "git reset --hard
> master~1". It makes the previous HEAD commit unreachable from "master"
> branch and it can be GCd in 30 days (?).
>
> My understanding can be wrong, of course. The manual explainst options
> like gc.reflogExpire and gc.reflogExpireUnreachable separately but does
> not draw the big picture how things work.

Oops, I think you're right. I didn't read about
gc.reflogExpireUnreachable carrefully enough.

-- 
Matthieu