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| author | John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems> | 2023-06-15 22:29:03 -0400 |
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| committer | John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems> | 2023-06-21 20:05:41 -0400 |
| commit | 5cc22e337023cee9cbffd3f9d2ff0eb3f18a4d12 (patch) | |
| tree | 8b0deed760c1af6531e210b39dfcc1b370648a87 /doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-collect-garbage.md | |
| parent | 48fe0ed554e2708d136cbfc10ec0969a638d209e (diff) | |
Clarify docs on deleting generations, including fixing a mistake
Deleting store info corrected (there is a foot-gun in Nix with
`--delete-generations old`!)
Also a few things are cleaned up based on feedback.
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-collect-garbage.md b/doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-collect-garbage.md index a679ceaf7..3cab79f0e 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-collect-garbage.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-collect-garbage.md @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ These options are for deleting old [profiles] prior to deleting unreachable [sto Delete all generations of profiles older than the specified amount (except for the generations that were active at that point in time). *period* is a value such as `30d`, which would mean 30 days. - This is the equivalent of invoking [`nix-env --delete-generations <period>`](@docroot@/command-ref/nix-env/delete-generations.md#generations-days) on each found profile. + This is the equivalent of invoking [`nix-env --delete-generations <period>`](@docroot@/command-ref/nix-env/delete-generations.md#generations-time) on each found profile. See the documentation of that command for additional information about the *period* argument. {{#include ./opt-common.md}} |