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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gc: call "prune --expire 2.weeks.ago" by default
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:07:23 +0100 (CET)
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Hi,

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> writes:
> 
> > Is 'git-gc --prune' still useful to end users when those in-the-know 
> > can use git-prune when they really want all loose unreferenced objects 
> > to be removed?
> 
> It is one command less to remember (just like with "git tag --verify" 
> and "git verify-tag"), so I'm all for "git gc --prune" to remain.

I don't care one way or the other.

> > Also, what about clones created with --shared or --reference? Should 
> > there be a way to disable this functionality? gc.pruneExpire never
> 
> That would be nice.

Okay, so I just remove the !approxidate() check.  Then, "gc.pruneExpire = 
never" should work as you expect it to.

Ciao,
Dscho