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

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On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 09:16:42AM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>> To me, long-living stashes are useful because I can all of a sudden be
>> pulled away from something I'm working on and set to work on something
>> entirely different for up to 6 months (so far we haven't had a single
>> emergency project run longer than that). It doesn't happen a lot, but
>> it *does* happen.
>
> So of course my first question is "then why didn't you use a branch?" :)

Because nobody / not everybody has perfect foresight, sometimes you
don't know in advance that what you thought was going to be a
temporary stash will turn into a long lived stash. What you are saying
is that really you should always create a branch, just in case your
temporary stash proved to be more long-lived than thought?


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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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