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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2007-10-09T22·14+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2007-10-09T22·14+0000
commita8629de827e4d5a67372614727ce6fcc26423f8c (patch)
treebf1cffcf63a74e41ec48fb7e12918d57979fc763 /src/nix-store/help.txt
parent27a0662828cb5ac9da198f35754750f12628d546 (diff)
* New command `nix-store --optimise' to reduce Nix store disk space
  usage by finding identical files in the store and hard-linking them
  to each other.  It typically reduces the size of the store by
  something like 25-35%.  This is what the optimise-store.pl script
  did, but the new command is faster and more correct (it's safe wrt
  garbage collection and concurrent builds).

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@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Operations:
 
   --init: initialise the Nix database
   --verify: verify Nix structures
+  --optimise: optimise the Nix store by hard-linking identical files
 
   --version: output version information
   --help: display help