git-annex/doc/todo/Deleting_Unused_Files_by_Age.mdwn
Joey Hess e213ef310f git-annex (5.20140717) unstable; urgency=high
* Fix minor FD leak in journal code. Closes: #754608
  * direct: Fix handling of case where a work tree subdirectory cannot
    be written to due to permissions.
  * migrate: Avoid re-checksumming when migrating from hashE to hash backend.
  * uninit: Avoid failing final removal in some direct mode repositories
    due to file modes.
  * S3: Deal with AWS ACL configurations that do not allow creating or
    checking the location of a bucket, but only reading and writing content to
    it.
  * resolvemerge: New plumbing command that runs the automatic merge conflict
    resolver.
  * Deal with change in git 2.0 that made indirect mode merge conflict
    resolution leave behind old files.
  * sync: Fix git sync with local git remotes even when they don't have an
    annex.uuid set. (The assistant already did so.)
  * Set gcrypt-publish-participants when setting up a gcrypt repository,
    to avoid unncessary passphrase prompts.
    This is a security/usability tradeoff. To avoid exposing the gpg key
    ids who can decrypt the repository, users can unset
    gcrypt-publish-participants.
  * Install nautilus hooks even when ~/.local/share/nautilus/ does not yet
    exist, since it is not automatically created for Gnome 3 users.
  * Windows: Move .vbs files out of git\bin, to avoid that being in the
    PATH, which caused some weird breakage. (Thanks, divB)
  * Windows: Fix locking issue that prevented the webapp starting
    (since 5.20140707).

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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.
> 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]]