Re: [PATCH 0/8] perf buildid-cache: Add clean command

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 08:29:19PM -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:

SNIP

> [acme@sandy wb]$ 
> 
> If we keep the way it is, I think it would be clearer to add a -l/--list
> command and that would:
> 
>   perf buildid-cache --list  # list all the files in the cache
>   perf buildid-cache --list 3d  # list 3 days old files
>   perf buildid-cache --list +3d  # list files 3 days or more older
>   perf buildid-cache --list -3d  # list files up to 3 days old

ok, I was up to old files (and big files) removal only.. not sure
the other way will be actually needed.. but it's easy enought to
add

> 
> And all these would print the sum of the matching files, i.e. the space
> those files use in the filesystem.
>  
> > Remove cache files older than 3 days:
> >   $ perf buildid-cache clean 3d -r
> 
>   perf buildid-cache --remove [-+]Nd # Same semantics as above
> 
> >     
> > Total cache removal:
> >   $ perf buildid-cache clean -r
> 
>  perf buildid-cache --remove '*'

hum, maybe '--removal all' might be better

>  
> > Remove and display items bigger than 200M
> >   $ perf buildid-cache clean -r -a 200M
> 
> But yeah, perhaps we could switch to having subcommands and add:
> 
>   perf buildid-cache [add|remove|update|list]
> 
> What do you think?

yep, those commands seem nicer.. 

let's see of there're other comments and I'll come up with
new interface after..

thanks,
jirka