Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-gc: skip stashes when expiring reflogs

El 13/6/2008, a las 6:52, Johannes Schindelin escribió:

Hi,

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Eric Raible wrote:

quoted

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref]  
wrote:

quoted

Perhaps

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/84665/focus=84670

The user explicitly asks to stash it for a while, where the  
definition of
the "while" comes from reflog's retention period.

But that doesn't answer the basic question as to why it's ok
to trash data that the user explicitly asked git to save?

If the user really asked git to save the changes, she would have
_committed_ them.

"git stash" really is only about shelving quickly and dirtily  
something
you'll need (or maybe need) in a moment.

If you need something from the stash a day after stashing it, you  
have a
serious problem with understanding what branches are for.

While this may be true for codebases which move forward quickly, what  
about one which is basically finished and tends not to get touched in  
a long time. A situation arises, you stash something, the phone rings,  
and for whatever reason the stash gets forgotten and you don't revisit  
the project at all for days, weeks, months. It wouldn't be nice to  
eventually come back and discover that your in-progress work had been  
"garbage" collected for you.

Wincent