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Git Version Control Cookbook - Second Edition
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Git Version Control Cookbook - Second Edition

by Kenneth Geisshirt, Emanuele Zattin(EUR), Aske Olsson, Rasmus Voss
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
354 pages
10h 57m
English
Packt Publishing
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Expiry of objects

By default, Git will perform garbage collection on unreferenced objects and clean reflog for entries that are more than 90 days old. For an object to be referenced, something must point to it; a tree, a commit, a tag, a branch, or some of the internal Git bookkeeping, such as stash or reflog. There are three settings that can be used to change this time as follows:

  • gc.reflogexpire: This is the general setting to know for how long a branch's history is kept in reflog. The default time is 90 days. The setting is a length of time, for example, 10 days, 6 months, and it can be turned completely with the value never. The setting can be set to match a refs pattern by supplying the pattern in the configuration setting. gc.<pattern>.reflogexpire ...
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