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It's too easy to accidentally delete all generations

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: taylanbayirli <at> gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich
 Bayırlı/Kammer)
Subject: bug#19978: closed (Re: bug#19978: It's too easy to accidentally
 delete all generations)
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 20:00:06 +0000

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Your bug report

#19978: It's too easy to accidentally delete all generations

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: taylanbayirli <at> gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer")
Cc: 19978-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19978: It's too easy to accidentally delete all generations
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 21:59:36 +0200

taylanbayirli <at> gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") skribis:

> The other day I ran "guix package -d 1d" thinking it will preserve the
> current generation, but it didn't.  If I'm not mistaken, there's no
> recovery from that either.
>
> Any command that will delete even the current generation should probably
> interactively warn/prompt the user by default, or fail, unless given a
> --force flag.  Documentation should also warn I guess.

I believe d26eb84 fixes that.

There’s no --force flag, but I think it’s unnecessary: it’s always
possible to rollback to generation 0 and from there remove whatever.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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From: taylanbayirli <at> gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer)
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: It's too easy to accidentally delete all generations
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 22:41:20 +0100

The other day I ran "guix package -d 1d" thinking it will preserve the
current generation, but it didn't.  If I'm not mistaken, there's no
recovery from that either.

Any command that will delete even the current generation should probably
interactively warn/prompt the user by default, or fail, unless given a
--force flag.  Documentation should also warn I guess.

Taylan

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