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| author | Klaus Aehlig <klaus.aehlig@huawei.com> | 2024-05-03 11:05:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Klaus Aehlig <klaus.aehlig@huawei.com> | 2024-05-03 12:35:01 +0200 |
| commit | 981a4646a99740a3e02564845b3164a30c2554a5 (patch) | |
| tree | ab6cabe2073c8a41fe20c608b964cb3a47a3dc78 /share | |
| parent | 8b86f071ae7f2100c0a03c2869f8fcc83a048583 (diff) | |
| download | justbuild-981a4646a99740a3e02564845b3164a30c2554a5.tar.gz | |
Update man page and CHANGELOG to reflect blob splitting
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diff --git a/share/man/just.1.md b/share/man/just.1.md index f4d613bf..ccd1964e 100644 --- a/share/man/just.1.md +++ b/share/man/just.1.md @@ -277,6 +277,17 @@ to the youngest generation; therefore, upon a call to **`gc`** everything not referenced since the last call to **`gc`** is purged and the corresponding disk space reclaimed. +Additionally, and before doing generation rotation, + - left-over temporary directories (e.g., from interrupted `just` + invocations) are removed, and + - large files are split and only the chunks and the information + how to assemble the file from the chunks are kept; in this way + disk space is saved without losing information. + +As the non-rotating tasks can be useful in their own right, the +`--no-rotate` option can be used to request only the clean-up tasks +that do not lose information. + **`execute`** ------------- |