Comment 2 for bug 373539

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 373539] [NEW] Add a `clean` command that deletes obsolete packs and uploads

On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 03:56 +0000, Tim Penhey wrote:
>
> I checked my other repository that contained the branch that I was
> branching from, and I noticed 101M of obsolete packs, and 60M in the
> upload directory. Now I know that nothing is going on on that machine
> either uploading to it nor pushing from it. However I don't know when
> is a "safe" time to remove code from these directories, but I do know
> that they are not giving a favourable size comparison against other
> DVCSs.

Just to note - stuff in uploads should be deleted; with the smart server
we should be quite good at deleting that these days. It would be
reasonable for 'check' to report on noise in uploads.

-Rob