From e10ab30e3b799c22ae5408f126bf59e12d2cb405 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 13:41:48 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] comment --- ...nt_7_a982dd633e7f29ec80c8e4362ebc064a._comment | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/Forget_about_accidentally_added_file__63__/comment_7_a982dd633e7f29ec80c8e4362ebc064a._comment diff --git a/doc/forum/Forget_about_accidentally_added_file__63__/comment_7_a982dd633e7f29ec80c8e4362ebc064a._comment b/doc/forum/Forget_about_accidentally_added_file__63__/comment_7_a982dd633e7f29ec80c8e4362ebc064a._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8ca1422d57 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Forget_about_accidentally_added_file__63__/comment_7_a982dd633e7f29ec80c8e4362ebc064a._comment @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 7""" + date="2021-04-13T17:00:10Z" + content=""" +Marking a key as dead does stop fsck complaining about it, and necessarily +means there are no copies of it tracked. So it kind of seems to me that +meets the goal of "forget about the key's existance and stop trying to track +or `fsck` it" + +I do think it would be reasonable to have git-annex forget --drop-dead +also remove logs for dead keys, but for other reasons: It would reduce the +size of the git-annex branch, and also eliminate mention of the key in the +git-annex branch's history. [[todo/forget_dead_keys]] +"""]]