On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Michael Haggerty <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 07/23/2015 09:00 PM, Eric Sunshine wrote:
>> In addition to approxidate-style values ("2.months.ago", "yesterday"),
>> consumers of 'gc.*expire*' configuration variables also accept and
>> respect 'now'/'all' ("do it immediately") and 'never'/'false' ("suppress
>> entirely").
>>
>> Suggested-by: Michael Haggerty <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> gc.pruneExpire::
>> When 'git gc' is run, it will call 'prune --expire 2.weeks.ago'.
>> Override the grace period with this config variable. The value
>> - "now" may be used to disable this grace period and always prune
>> - unreachable objects immediately.
>> + "now" may be used to disable this grace period and always prune
>> + unreachable objects immediately; or "never" to suppress pruning.
>
> A semicolon should be used without a conjunction, and the parts of a
> sentence joined by a semicolon should be independent clauses. So this
> should probably be
>
> [...] The value
> "now" may be used to disable this grace period and always prune
> unreachable objects immediately, or "never" may be used to
> suppress pruning.
I was absent from school that day...
>> @@ -1328,7 +1330,8 @@ gc.reflogExpireUnreachable::
>> gc.<ref>.reflogExpireUnreachable::
>> 'git reflog expire' removes reflog entries older than
>> this time and are not reachable from the current tip;
>> - defaults to 30 days. With "<pattern>" (e.g. "refs/stash")
>> + defaults to 30 days. The value "all" expires all entries; and
>> + "false" disables expiration. With "<pattern>" (e.g. "refs/stash")
>> in the middle, the setting applies only to the refs that
>> match the <pattern>.
>
> Also, I wonder why you suggest "now"/"never" for the first two settings,
> but "all"/"false" for the second two. Wouldn't it be less confusing to
> be consistent?
It was intentional due to the way I worded the sentence. It sounded
slightly strange to my ear to say:
The value "now" expires all entries; and "never"
disables expiration.
whereas:
The value "all" expires all entries; ...
sounded nice. But, upon reflection, with a slight re-wording[1], "all"
and "never" work, as well.
[1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/274828
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