manpage of rdiff-backup-delete
David Croll via Any discussion of rdiff-backup <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:20:31 +0100
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Hi Patrik, hi Eric, As a short follow-up: ...programmers say that there's nothing worse than documentation that's=20 erroneous or misleading... The manpage for "rdiff-backup-delete" says: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0The utility is best used to remove too big or = secret files=20 erroneously =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0backed-up. Beware that no trace of the file wi= ll remain in the =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0repository after its deletion. I take some issue with the words "no trace of the file". I created the file "all my secret little crimes.txt", but after calling=20 rdiff-backup-delete on it, the file increments/backup.log still mentions= =20 it - if I've run rdiff-backup with the "-v 5" option: NOTE: Starting mirror from source path source to destination path dest * Processing file . * Processing file all my secret little crimes.txt * Cleaning up It should be a trivial issue to make rdiff-backup-delete clean up=20 backup.log, and remove all the lines that mention all my secret little=20 crimes. With the best regards, David