datalad clean

Synopsis

datalad clean [-h] [-d DATASET] [--what [WHAT ...]] [--dry-run] [-r] [-R LEVELS]
    [--version]

Description

Clean up after DataLad (possible temporary files etc.)

Removes temporary files and directories left behind by DataLad and git-annex in a dataset.

Examples

Clean all known temporary locations of a dataset:

% datalad clean

Report on all existing temporary locations of a dataset:

% datalad clean --dry-run

Clean all known temporary locations of a dataset and all its subdatasets:

% datalad clean -r

Clean only the archive extraction caches of a dataset and all its subdatasets:

% datalad clean --what cached-archives -r

Report on existing annex transfer files of a dataset and all its subdatasets:

% datalad clean --what annex-transfer -r --dry-run

Options

-h, --help, --help-np

show this help message. –help-np forcefully disables the use of a pager for displaying the help message

-d DATASET, --dataset DATASET

specify the dataset to perform the clean operation on. If no dataset is given, an attempt is made to identify the dataset in current working directory. Constraints: Value must be a Dataset or a valid identifier of a Dataset (e.g. a path) or value must be NONE

--what [WHAT …]

What to clean. If none specified – all known targets are considered. Constraints: value must be one of (‘cached-archives’, ‘annex-tmp’, ‘annex- transfer’, ‘search-index’) or value must be NONE

--dry-run

Report on cleanable locations - not actually cleaning up anything.

-r, --recursive

if set, recurse into potential subdatasets.

-R LEVELS, --recursion-limit LEVELS

limit recursion into subdatasets to the given number of levels. Constraints: value must be convertible to type ‘int’ or value must be NONE

--version

show the module and its version which provides the command

Authors

datalad is developed by The DataLad Team and Contributors <team@datalad.org>.