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From: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
To: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	"Michael Haggerty" <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
	"Stefan Beller" <stefanbeller@gmail.com>,
	"Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	"Matt McCutchen" <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] gc docs: include the "gc.*" section from "config" in "gc"
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 23:11:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4dba2718-9e93-4f07-8f67-f79a8a9fbb0c@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190318213139.GF29661@sigill.intra.peff.net>

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
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-21 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-18 16:14 [PATCH 0/4] gc docs: modernize and fix the documentation Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-18 16:14 ` [PATCH 1/4] gc docs: modernize the advice for manually running "gc" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-18 21:27   ` Jeff King
2019-03-18 22:18     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-18 16:15 ` [PATCH 2/4] gc docs: include the "gc.*" section from "config" in "gc" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-18 21:31   ` Jeff King
2019-03-21 22:11     ` Andreas Heiduk [this message]
2019-03-19  2:08   ` Duy Nguyen
2019-03-18 16:15 ` [PATCH 3/4] gc docs: de-duplicate "OPTIONS" and "CONFIGURATION" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-18 21:49   ` Jeff King
2019-03-18 22:48     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-18 23:42       ` Jeff King
2019-03-18 16:15 ` [PATCH 4/4] gc docs: downplay the usefulness of --aggressive Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-18 20:28   ` Jonathan Nieder
2019-03-18 21:22     ` Jeff King
2019-03-18 22:13       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-18 23:53         ` Jeff King
2019-03-19  6:54   ` Johannes Sixt
2019-03-19  9:28     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-18 21:51 ` [PATCH 0/4] gc docs: modernize and fix the documentation Jeff King
2019-03-18 22:45   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-19  0:18     ` Jeff King
2019-05-06  9:44       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-07  7:51         ` Jeff King
2019-05-09 23:20           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-07-31  4:26             ` Jeff King
2019-07-31 10:12               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-21 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  9:32   ` [PATCH v3 00/11] gc docs: modernize the advice for manually running "gc" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  9:32   ` [PATCH v3 01/11] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  9:32   ` [PATCH v3 02/11] gc docs: stop noting "repack" flags Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  9:32   ` [PATCH v3 03/11] gc docs: clean grammar for "gc.bigPackThreshold" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  9:32   ` [PATCH v3 04/11] gc docs: include the "gc.*" section from "config" in "gc" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-30 18:04     ` Todd Zullinger
2019-04-07 19:52     ` [PATCH v4 00/11] gc docs: modernize and fix the documentation Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-07 19:52     ` [PATCH v4 01/11] gc docs: modernize the advice for manually running "gc" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-07 19:52     ` [PATCH v4 02/11] gc docs: stop noting "repack" flags Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-07 19:52     ` [PATCH v4 03/11] gc docs: clean grammar for "gc.bigPackThreshold" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-07 19:52     ` [PATCH v4 04/11] gc docs: include the "gc.*" section from "config" in "gc" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-07 19:52     ` [PATCH v4 05/11] gc docs: re-flow the "gc.*" section in "config" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-07 19:52     ` [PATCH v4 06/11] gc docs: fix formatting for "gc.writeCommitGraph" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-07 19:52     ` [PATCH v4 07/11] gc docs: note how --aggressive impacts --window & --depth Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-07 19:52     ` [PATCH v4 08/11] gc docs: downplay the usefulness of --aggressive Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-07 19:52     ` [PATCH v4 09/11] gc docs: note "gc --aggressive" in "fast-import" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-07 19:52     ` [PATCH v4 10/11] gc docs: clarify that "gc" doesn't throw away referenced objects Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-04-07 19:52     ` [PATCH v4 11/11] gc docs: remove incorrect reference to gc.auto=0 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  9:32   ` [PATCH v3 05/11] gc docs: re-flow the "gc.*" section in "config" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  9:32   ` [PATCH v3 06/11] gc docs: fix formatting for "gc.writeCommitGraph" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  9:32   ` [PATCH v3 07/11] gc docs: note how --aggressive impacts --window & --depth Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  9:32   ` [PATCH v3 08/11] gc docs: downplay the usefulness of --aggressive Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  9:32   ` [PATCH v3 09/11] gc docs: note "gc --aggressive" in "fast-import" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  9:32   ` [PATCH v3 10/11] gc docs: clarify that "gc" doesn't throw away referenced objects Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  9:32   ` [PATCH v3 11/11] gc docs: remove incorrect reference to gc.auto=0 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-21 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] gc docs: modernize the advice for manually running "gc" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-22  6:01   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-03-21 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] gc docs: stop noting "repack" flags Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-21 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] gc docs: clean grammar for "gc.bigPackThreshold" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-21 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] gc docs: include the "gc.*" section from "config" in "gc" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-21 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] gc docs: re-flow the "gc.*" section in "config" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-21 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] gc docs: note how --aggressive impacts --window & --depth Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-21 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] gc docs: downplay the usefulness of --aggressive Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-21 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] gc docs: note "gc --aggressive" in "fast-import" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-21 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] gc docs: clarify that "gc" doesn't throw away referenced objects Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-21 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] gc docs: remove incorrect reference to gc.auto=0 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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