Emit basic dry run message for garbage collection#15229
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nix store gc: prints number of paths that would be freed, but not bytes nix-collect-garbage: ditto nix-store --gc: retains current behavior It would be very non-trivial to also compute the bytes that would be freed, due to hardlinking in the store. Also adds checking for incompatible mixing of dry-run and max-freed options. Resolves NixOS#5704 Signed-off-by: Lisanna Dettwyler <lisanna.dettwyler@gmail.com>
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Emit basic dry run message for garbage collection
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nix store gc: prints number of paths that would be freed, but not bytes
nix-collect-garbage: ditto
nix-store --gc: retains current behavior
It would be very non-trivial to also compute the bytes that would be freed, due to hardlinking in the store.
Also adds checking for incompatible mixing of dry-run and max-freed options.
Resolves #5704
Motivation
A very basic output (path count) is better than the current behavior (no output / no-op). The current behavior is kind of dangerous because a user may take the empty output of
--dry-runat face value, and assume running without it will not delete anything (or will delete less than it actually will, if combined with--delete-old).Context
#5704
#5705
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