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

2008/6/13 Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref]:

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.

Even if everyone were to eventually agree with this, I think it's a bit rude
to teach people who stored something important in a stash for a month that
this is the case by deleting their work.

Even with the documentation update, if you're a newbie, you might not know
that git in some places automatically calls git gc when you git pull, as in
the example Brandon gave.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson