Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@xxxxxx> 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@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. Oops, I think you're right. I didn't read about gc.reflogExpireUnreachable carrefully enough. -- Matthieu -- 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