Issue 2374: garbage collection of global cache - Darcs bug tracker

Title	garbage collection of global cache
Priority	feature	Status	resolved
Milestone	2.10.0	Resolved in
Superseder		Nosy List	darcs-devel, gh, mdiaz, simon
Assigned To	mdiaz	Topics	Performance

Created on 2014-04-10.15:05:29 by gh, last changed 2014-10-21.14:16:04 by gh.

Messages
msg17326 (view)	Author: gh	Date: 2014-04-10.15:05:26
The global cache only grows and there is no way for the darcs client to clean it. We need to introduce a command that deletes unused files from the global cache. Implement a command “darcs optimize –global-cache” that scans the home directory (or some folder given as argument) to find repositories, garbage collect them (optionally?), and only keep hashed files that correspond to these repositories. See <http://darcs.net/Internals/CacheSystem>
msg17335 (view)	Author: gh	Date: 2014-04-11.17:52:59
And while we're scanning and garbage collecting everything at once, it also makes sense to relink everything.
msg17709 (view)	Author: gh	Date: 2014-10-21.14:16:03
resolved by patch1180

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2014-04-10 15:05:29	gh	create
2014-04-10 15:06:35	gh	set	nosy: + darcs-devel
2014-04-11 17:53:00	gh	set	messages: + msg17335
2014-04-19 16:50:01	gh	set	nosy: + simon
2014-10-21 14:16:04	gh	set	status: unknown -> resolved messages: + msg17709