On 18.03.19 at 22:31 Jeff King wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 05:15:00PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > >> Rather than duplicating the documentation for the various "gc" options >> let's include the "gc" docs from git-config. They were mostly better >> already, and now we don't have the same docs in two places with subtly >> different wording. >> >> In the cases where the git-gc(1) docs were saying something the "gc" >> docs in git-config(1) didn't cover move the relevant section over to >> the git-config(1) docs. > > Makes sense. > > I think we lose the actual example for gc.*.reflogExpire: > >> -The above two configuration variables can be given to a pattern. For >> -example, this sets non-default expiry values only to remote-tracking >> -branches: >> - >> ------------- >> -[gc "refs/remotes/*"] >> - reflogExpire = never >> - reflogExpireUnreachable = 3 days >> ------------- > > I don't actually think it's that big a loss. If we wanted to retain it, > though, it might make sense in the "EXAMPLES" section. Coincidentally I stumbled over that example a month ago and immediately put `never` into my configuraton for a certain - often rebased branch (something like "pu" here). > > -Peff >
