From TODO: Add a --clean option to optimize
Import of RT #28

<droundy@abridgegame.org> 2004-11-07
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Subject: From TODO: Add a --clean option to optimize

Add a --clean option to optimize to get rid of old cruft in the _darcs
directory (old patches, etc).

I agree this feature would be nice to have as well.

Setting status deferred, since this is a new feature.

Best regards
Thorkil

Sorry, deferring was a mistake. Setting status need-info instead, asking for a 
discussion of whether we should work towards supporting this feature.

Thanks and best regards
Thorkil

This ancient feature request sounds even more relevant with hashed repositories.
 Could something like this be useful to garbage collect unused hashed files,
maybe also from the global caches?

I'm adding Petr to this because of his hashed-storage work.

On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:49:45 +0000
Eric Kow <bugs@darcs.net> wrote:

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> Eric Kow <kowey@darcs.net> added the comment:
> 
> This ancient feature request sounds even more relevant with hashed repositories.
>  Could something like this be useful to garbage collect unused hashed files,
> maybe also from the global caches?

I like the idea of global cache being pruned back to some configurable size.

I think of "dot files" and "dot directories" as being small. While I don't mind
that darcs uses one to store a global cache, I don't like the idea of it
growing larger than a gigabyte.

    Mark

Resolved by <http://bugs.darcs.net/patch1134>.
Global cache garbage collection shall have a separate ticket.