Housekeeping

[thibaultmeyer]

It would be nice to have a button (on each repos settings page) to run a housekeeping operation. This operation is useful to clean a repository and decrease is size.

Usually these two commands are run:

git prune
git gc --aggressive

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[strk]

I think there's a periodic routine doing those things, (why) do you also want a button ?

[strk]

in any case, I guess if you provide a PR the approval process would be smoother :)

[thibaultmeyer]

I think manual housekeeping is better than periodic routine, cause is useless to run housekeeping on no-longer used/ archived repos.

Or maybe the periodic routine could be configured to ignore some repos ? (like a checkbox on each repos settings)

[strk]

I don't think the periodic routine can be configured, atm.
I guess an overall review of the system is needed, are you up for that ?
Ideally we'd have:

• Configurable periodic routine (frequency, exclusion list)
• Record of when the routine last run, shown in admin panel
• Button to force a run the routine for a single repository
• Button to force a run of the periodic routine

[6543]

admin UI have button to "housekeep" all repos and I think there also exist a cronjob

[6543]

I'll close feel free to ask for reopen if i missed something