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Clarify prune behavior for different archive contents 

In the online help, explain that archives with different contents need to be
separated via the prefix when pruning to achieve a desired retention policy per
archive set.

Relates to #1824.
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Johannes Wienke 2016-11-10 19:40:08 +01:00
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@ -1536,6 +1536,8 @@ class Archiver:
considered for deletion and only those archives count towards the totals
specified by the rules.
Otherwise, *all* archives in the repository are candidates for deletion!
There is no automatic distinction between archives representing different
contents. These need to be distinguished by specifying matching prefixes.
""")
subparser = subparsers.add_parser('prune', parents=[common_parser],
description=self.do_prune.__doc__,