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diff --git a/src/libstore/profiles.hh b/src/libstore/profiles.hh
index 4e1f42e83..193c0bf21 100644
--- a/src/libstore/profiles.hh
+++ b/src/libstore/profiles.hh
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
#pragma once
-///@file
+/**
+ * @file Implementation of Profiles.
+ *
+ * See the manual for additional information.
+ */
- #include "types.hh"
+#include "types.hh"
#include "pathlocks.hh"
#include <time.h>
@@ -12,41 +16,166 @@ namespace nix {
class StorePath;
+/**
+ * A positive number identifying a generation for a given profile.
+ *
+ * Generation numbers are assigned sequentially. Each new generation is
+ * assigned 1 + the current highest generation number.
+ */
typedef uint64_t GenerationNumber;
+/**
+ * A generation is a revision of a profile.
+ *
+ * Each generation is a mapping (key-value pair) from an identifier
+ * (`number`) to a store object (specified by `path`).
+ */
struct Generation
{
+ /**
+ * The number of a generation is its unique identifier within the
+ * profile.
+ */
GenerationNumber number;
+ /**
+ * The store path identifies the store object that is the contents
+ * of the generation.
+ *
+ * These store paths / objects are not unique to the generation
+ * within a profile. Nix tries to ensure successive generations have
+ * distinct contents to avoid bloat, but nothing stops two
+ * non-adjacent generations from having the same contents.
+ *
+ * @todo Use `StorePath` instead of `Path`?
+ */
Path path;
+
+ /**
+ * When the generation was created. This is extra metadata about the
+ * generation used to make garbage collecting old generations more
+ * convenient.
+ */
time_t creationTime;
};
+/**
+ * All the generations of a profile
+ */
typedef std::list<Generation> Generations;
/**
- * Returns the list of currently present generations for the specified
- * profile, sorted by generation number. Also returns the number of
- * the current generation.
+ * Find all generations for the given profile.
+ *
+ * @param profile A profile specified by its name and location combined
+ * into a path. E.g. if "foo" is the name of the profile, and "/bar/baz"
+ * is the directory it is in, then the path "/bar/baz/foo" would be the
+ * argument for this parameter.
+ *
+ * @return The pair of:
+ *
+ * - The list of currently present generations for the specified profile,
+ * sorted by ascending generation number.
+ *
+ * - The number of the current/active generation.
+ *
+ * Note that the current/active generation need not be the latest one.
*/
std::pair<Generations, std::optional<GenerationNumber>> findGenerations(Path profile);
class LocalFSStore;
-Path createGeneration(ref<LocalFSStore> store, Path profile, StorePath outPath);
+/**
+ * Create a new generation of the given profile
+ *
+ * If the previous generation (not the currently active one!) has a
+ * distinct store object, a fresh generation number is mapped to the
+ * given store object, referenced by path. Otherwise, the previous
+ * generation is assumed.
+ *
+ * The behavior of reusing existing generations like this makes this
+ * procedure idempotent. It also avoids clutter.
+ */
+Path createGeneration(LocalFSStore & store, Path profile, StorePath outPath);
+/**
+ * Unconditionally delete a generation
+ *
+ * @param profile A profile specified by its name and location combined into a path.
+ *
+ * @param gen The generation number specifying exactly which generation
+ * to delete.
+ *
+ * Because there is no check of whether the generation to delete is
+ * active, this is somewhat unsafe.
+ *
+ * @todo Should we expose this at all?
+ */
void deleteGeneration(const Path & profile, GenerationNumber gen);
+/**
+ * Delete the given set of generations.
+ *
+ * @param profile The profile, specified by its name and location combined into a path, whose generations we want to delete.
+ *
+ * @param gensToDelete The generations to delete, specified by a set of
+ * numbers.
+ *
+ * @param dryRun Log what would be deleted instead of actually doing
+ * so.
+ *
+ * Trying to delete the currently active generation will fail, and cause
+ * no generations to be deleted.
+ */
void deleteGenerations(const Path & profile, const std::set<GenerationNumber> & gensToDelete, bool dryRun);
+/**
+ * Delete generations older than `max` passed the current generation.
+ *
+ * @param profile The profile, specified by its name and location combined into a path, whose generations we want to delete.
+ *
+ * @param max How many generations to keep up to the current one. Must
+ * be at least 1 so we don't delete the current one.
+ *
+ * @param dryRun Log what would be deleted instead of actually doing
+ * so.
+ */
void deleteGenerationsGreaterThan(const Path & profile, GenerationNumber max, bool dryRun);
+/**
+ * Delete all generations other than the current one
+ *
+ * @param profile The profile, specified by its name and location combined into a path, whose generations we want to delete.
+ *
+ * @param dryRun Log what would be deleted instead of actually doing
+ * so.
+ */
void deleteOldGenerations(const Path & profile, bool dryRun);
+/**
+ * Delete generations older than `t`, except for the most recent one
+ * older than `t`.
+ *
+ * @param profile The profile, specified by its name and location combined into a path, whose generations we want to delete.
+ *
+ * @param dryRun Log what would be deleted instead of actually doing
+ * so.
+ */
void deleteGenerationsOlderThan(const Path & profile, time_t t, bool dryRun);
-void deleteGenerationsOlderThan(const Path & profile, std::string_view timeSpec, bool dryRun);
+/**
+ * Parse a temp spec intended for `deleteGenerationsOlderThan()`.
+ *
+ * Throws an exception if `timeSpec` fails to parse.
+ */
+time_t parseOlderThanTimeSpec(std::string_view timeSpec);
+/**
+ * Smaller wrapper around `replaceSymlink` for replacing the current
+ * generation of a profile. Does not enforce proper structure.
+ *
+ * @todo Always use `switchGeneration()` instead, and delete this.
+ */
void switchLink(Path link, Path target);
/**