Add forcerescan

[daedalus]

I have found this usefull when I have to import keys with pywallet for example.

[gmaxwell]

Hm. Does pywallet not correctly handle the height records? If its adding a key to a wallet it should zero it out.

[sipa]

I suppose it does not, but even then - there shouldn't ever be a need to rescan except when loading a wallet, so this should be done via the command-line (-reindex) instead of via RPC?

Or is there a reason why an RPC is preferrable?

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[yhaenggi]

@sipa its only usefull if you forgot to run with -rescan so you dont have to stop + start again, anyone editing the wallet while bitcoind is running is stupid. id say this new RPC call would atrract alot of ppl exactly doing this, therefore its not a that good idea.

[wtogami]

NACK

[gavinandresen]

NACK from me, too. Closing.