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@xxxxxx> 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. http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-gc.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html