Yeah, after I checked the code I saw that this is interpreted as
integer and fixed my configuration
2017-07-21 16:33 GMT+02:00 Junio C Hamano :
> Uwe Hausbrand writes:
>
>> seems like there is a bug with "git rerere gc" not understanding grace
>> periods like "60 days" defined in the config.
>>
>> What I did:
>>
>> git config gc.rerereresolved "60 days"
>
> Let's see how the variable is explained in the documentation.
>
> gc.rerereResolved::
> Records of conflicted merge you resolved earlier are
> kept for this many days when 'git rerere gc' is run.
> The default is 60 days. See linkgit:git-rerere[1].
>
> Notice that "for this many days" tries to (and probably
> unsuccessfully) tell you that this variable is expected to be set to
> an integer [*1*], counted in "days". IOW, you'd want "60" instead.
>
> Having said that, it may not be a bad idea to enumerate these
> "expected to be an integer that counts in some unit" variables that
> are described in a similar way (i.e. look for "this many" in
> Documentation/config.txt), and then for each of them that could be
> counted in different unit (e.g. it is not outrageously wrong to
> expect that you could specify that rerere records that are older
> than 3 months are expired):
>
> - decide what kind of quantity the variable specifies (e.g. "this
>many days" and "this many seconds" variables are giving a
>"timeperiod").
>
> - keep the code that reacts to an integer without any unit to
>behave the same (e.g. "[gc] rerereresolved = 30" will keep
>meaning "30 days");
>
> - extend the code so that when the value given is not an integer,
>it tries to parse it as a specification for the expected quantity
>(e.g. "this many days" and "this many seconds" variables would
>understand if you said "60 days" or "2 months")
>
>
> [Footnote]
>
> *1* I think we actually expect a scaled integer whenever we expect
> an integral value, so you probably could say "6k" to specify
> "6,000 days"; "days" not being any of the recognised unit
> suffix like k, M, G, etc. is where "invalid unit" comes from.
