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I got tired of being told "TL;DR". Now the online versions of most documents fit on a page or two, or at least most of them do. The rest has been split out (and you can see the links to the split out sections right where the text is in the raw Markdown). This is much more pleasant to read, and I've improved the linking so it's much less effort for me to keep the links correct.
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F=wild_repodel deleting repos safely
NOTE: this page is about deleting [user-created repos][wild]. It is not about deleting "normal" repos (the kind that are specified in the gitolite.conf file itself) -- to delete those read [here][repodel].
(see this thread on the gitolite mailing list)
By default, the old 'rmrepo' ADC (admin-defined command) just went and deleted the repo -- no questions asked! Sometimes, that could be a disaster -- you lose the whole thing in one mad moment of typo-ing or frustration. Ouch.
This has been replaced by 2 families of ADCs. I say "families" because each has one main command and 2 ancillary ones. Admins can choose to install either, both, or neither family of commands.
Local settings for these ADCs can be found in the common settings file "adc.common-functions".
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'rm' will remove the repo. If
USE_LOCK_UNLOCKis set, rm will refuse to remove a locked repo. All repos are locked by default, and you have to explicitly 'unlock' a repo to remove it. You can also 'lock' it again instead of removing it of course.There's also
ARE_YOU_SURE, for situations where a simple warning suffices.You can also use both these flags if you wish.
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'trash' will move the repo to a safe location. There are settings for where this location is and what suffix is added to the repo name. You can 'list-trash' to see what trash you have collected, and you can 'restore' one of the listed repos.
It's easy to automatically clean out the trash occasionally. By default, entries in the trash look like this:
foo/r1/2010-10-22_13:14:24 foo/r1/2010-10-22_13:14:50This shows a repo foo/r1 that was created and trashed twice.
Since the date appears in the name, you can use it with a cutoff to clean up old repos. Untested example:
cutoff=`date -I -d '28 days ago'` find $TRASH_CAN -type d -name "20??-??-??_*" | while read r do d=`basename $r` [[ $d < $cutoff ]] && rm -rf $r donePut this in cron to run once a day and that should be it.