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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]]