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diff --git a/doc/todo/Deleting_Unused_Files_by_Age.mdwn b/doc/todo/Deleting_Unused_Files_by_Age.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b72768bca --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/Deleting_Unused_Files_by_Age.mdwn @@ -0,0 +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. + +> 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]] |