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2014-02-17	nix-store --gc --max-freed: Support a unit specifier	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+6
	E.g. "--max-freed 10G" means "free ten gigabytes".
2013-08-26	Fix typos, especially those that end up in the Nix manual	Ivan Kozik	1	-1/+1

2013-08-23	Manual: Don't use actual hashes of Nix dependencies	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+2
	These cause an unnecessary runtime dependency :-)
2013-06-13	Typo	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2012-11-20	nix-store -r: Add ‘--ignore-unknown’ flag	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+8
	This flag causes paths that do not have a known substitute to be quietly ignored. This is mostly useful for Charon, allowing it to speed up deployment by letting a machine use substitutes for all substitutable paths, instead of uploading them. The latter is frequently faster, e.g. if the target machine has a fast Internet connection while the source machine is on a slow ADSL line.
2012-10-12	Typo	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+2
	Reported by Shea.
2012-10-04	Manual: Don't use a store path that actually exists	Eelco Dolstra	1	-4/+4
	http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3124130
2012-10-03	Document ‘--repair’	Eelco Dolstra	1	-4/+13

2012-10-02	nix-store --verify: Add an option ‘--repair’ to repair all ↵	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+12
	missing/corrupt paths Also, return a non-zero exit code if errors remain after verifying/repairing.
2012-10-02	Add operation ‘nix-store --repair-path’	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+46
	This operation allows fixing corrupted or accidentally deleted store paths by redownloading them using substituters, if available. Since the corrupted path cannot be replaced atomically, there is a very small time window (one system call) during which neither the old (corrupted) nor the new (repaired) contents are available. So repairing should be used with some care on critical packages like Glibc.
2012-05-10	Document "nix-store --add"	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+34

2012-05-09	Document some nix-store subcommands	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+154

2012-04-14	nix-channel improvements	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+3
	"nix-channel --add" now accepts a second argument: the channel name. This allows channels to have a nicer name than (say) nixpkgs_unstable. If no name is given, it defaults to the last component of the URL (with "-unstable" or "-stable" removed). Also, channels are now stored in a profile (/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/$USER/channels). One advantage of this is that it allows rollbacks (e.g. if "nix-channel --update" gives an undesirable update).
2012-04-06	Include environment variables in the manpages	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+10

2012-04-06	Include common options in the manpages using some XInclude hackery	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+7

2012-03-26	Remove the --max-links GC option	Eelco Dolstra	1	-11/+0
	We don't need this anymore now that current filesystems support more than 32,000 files in a directory.
2010-11-17	* Add an operation `nix-store -q --size'.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-3/+16

2010-04-25	Fixing a typo in the nix-store manual, that could confuse a bit too much ↵	Lluís Batlle i Rossell	1	-1/+1
	(--delete/--gc)
2009-11-23	* A command `nix-store --query --roots <paths>' to find the garbage	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+22
	collector roots that point (directly or indirectly) to the given paths.
2009-11-20	* Remove the --use-atime / --max-atime garbage collector flags. Many	Eelco Dolstra	1	-45/+0
	(Linux) machines no longer maintain the atime because it's too expensive, and on the machines where --use-atime is useful (like the buildfarm), reading the atimes on the entire Nix store takes way too much time to make it practical.
2009-07-14	* Remove the redundant <sections> around refentries.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+2

2008-11-19	* Updated the manual.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+133

2007-12-31	* Documented a bunch of nix-store commands.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+174

2007-09-19	* Manpage for nix-copy-closure.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+9

2007-08-12	* Get rid of the substitutes database table (NIX-47). Instead, if we	Eelco Dolstra	1	-30/+0
	need any info on substitutable paths, we just call the substituters (such as download-using-manifests.pl) directly. This means that it's no longer necessary for nix-pull to register substitutes or for nix-channel to clear them, which makes those operations much faster (NIX-95). Also, we don't have to worry about keeping nix-pull manifests (in /nix/var/nix/manifests) and the database in sync with each other. The downside is that there is some overhead in calling an external program to get the substitutes info. For instance, "nix-env -qas" takes a bit longer. Abolishing the substitutes table also makes the logic in local-store.cc simpler, as we don't need to store info for invalid paths. On the downside, you cannot do things like "nix-store -qR" on a substitutable but invalid path (but nobody did that anyway). * Never catch interrupts (the Interrupted exception).
2007-02-05	* Compatibility with docbook5-xsl.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2006-11-30	* Troubleshooting information on fixing a b0rked Berkeley DB database.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2006-10-05	* Document nix-store --delete.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+55

2006-10-05	* Work around a weird bug in the manpage generation.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+1

2006-10-05	* Documented nix-store --dump / --restore.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+74

2006-10-02	* Documented nix-hash.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+3

2006-08-21	* Convert to DocBook 5.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-11/+12
	* Use Jing for RelaxNG validation, xmllint seems buggy.
2005-12-13	* Change `referer' to `referrer' throughout. In particular, the	Eelco Dolstra	1	-9/+9
	nix-store query options `--referer' and `--referer-closure' have been changed to `--referrer' and `--referrer-closure' (but the old ones are still accepted for compatibility).
2005-05-09	* Crazy: don't use real hashes of real components in examples, since	Eelco Dolstra	1	-4/+4
	they cause Nix builds to have unnecessary retained dependences (e.g., on Subversion).
2005-04-10	* Manual updates.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-3/+6

2005-04-09	* Document nix-channel.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-5/+9

2005-04-08	* Lots of manual updates, in particular the new `nix-store --query'	Eelco Dolstra	1	-78/+204
	options were documented, as well as the Nix configuration file.
2005-04-07	* More doc updates.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-4/+24

2005-04-07	* More manual updates.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-25/+61

2005-04-07	* Build hook documentation.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-286/+190
	* nix-store options.
2005-04-07	* GC docs.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-102/+90

2005-04-05	* Manual updates.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+2

2005-04-05	* Some GC documentation.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-30/+50

2005-03-17	* Manual updates.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-102/+119

2005-03-16	* Documented common environment variables.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-7/+2

2005-03-15	* Some more updates.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-1/+1

2005-03-15	* XInclude all the way.	Eelco Dolstra	1	-2/+2

2004-10-18	* Instead of — use the actual Unicode character. By the way, to	Eelco Dolstra	1	-4/+4
	edit the manual, you should have something like (modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.xml\\>" 'utf-8) in your ~/.emacs.
2004-08-25	* `--min-age' flag in nix-store and nix-collect-garbage to only delete	Eelco Dolstra	1	-0/+12
	unreachable paths that haven't been used for N hours. For instance, `nix-collect-garbage --min-age 168' only deletes paths that haven't been accessed in the last week. This is useful for instance in the build farm where many derivations can be shared between consecutive builds, and we wouldn't want a garbage collect to throw them all away. We could of course register them as roots, but then we'd to unregister them at some point, which would be a pain to manage. The `--min-age' flag gives us a sort of MRU caching scheme. BUG: this really shouldn't be in gc.cc since that violates mechanism/policy separation.
2004-08-25	* `nix-collect-garbage' now actually performs a garbage collection, it	Eelco Dolstra	1	-12/+58
	doesn't just print the set of paths that should be deleted. So there is no more need to pipe the result into `nix-store --delete' (which doesn't even exist anymore).