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+I don't want files that I dropped to immediately disappear from my local or all of my remotes repos on the next sync. Especially in situations where changes to the git-annex repo get automatically and immediately replicated to remote repos, I want a configurable "grace" period before files in .git/annex/objects get really deleted.
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+This has similarities to the "trash" on a desktop. It might also be nice to
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+* configure a maximum amount of space of the "trash"
+* have a way to see the contents of the trash to easily recover deleted files