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Joey Hess 2013-10-26 15:58:02 -04:00
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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]]