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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-10-26 15:58:02 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-10-26 15:58:02 -0400 |
| commit | 8edab5f0dd7134451bfdd632174ec9559a6ae806 (patch) | |
| tree | f1269e7696b06551c74095b72504dc91eab1fb7b | |
| parent | bd48389f24f3af056314634f47e6776c6b16827a (diff) | |
thought
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diff --git a/doc/todo/Deleting_Unused_Files_by_Age.mdwn b/doc/todo/Deleting_Unused_Files_by_Age.mdwn index 54e93277c..b72768bca 100644 --- a/doc/todo/Deleting_Unused_Files_by_Age.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/Deleting_Unused_Files_by_Age.mdwn @@ -1 +1,13 @@ -I periodically move unused files to one of my servers. What I would like to do is drop any unused file that has been unused for say more than 6 months? I would like to not drop all unused files. +I periodically move unused files to one of my servers. What I would like to +do is drop any unused file that has been unused for say more than 6 months? +I would like to not drop all unused files. + +> It strikes me that this is quite similar to how git handles deleting +> stale refs with the reflog. So, if `git annex unused` were changed to +> also look at the reflog, it would keep all files referred to by all refs +> in the reflog, until the reflog expires. You could then set reflog expiry +> to 6 months, and be done. +> +> However, I think that many users expect git annex unused to be able to +> immediately find and remove a file after it's been deleted. So this +> probably needs to be a configurable behavior. --[[Joey]] |