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NAME
bk gone − mark a file (key) as gone

SYNOPSIS
bk gone [−q] [key key ... | −]

DESCRIPTION
The bk gone command is used when a file has been lost or physically deleted and the administrator of the repository has decided that the file should be marked as gone.

The key of the file can be generated from an existing file as follows:

$ bk log -r+ -d:ROOTKEY: file

The key that is returned from the above command needs to be marked as gone if the file is to be removed from the repository.

Sometimes a file is lost (i.e. the gotten file and the s.file have been removed by accident). Whenever repository-level commands are run, consistency checks are performed. When these checks run, they will notice that a file is lost and will complain. After looking over the consistency check output carefully, you can run the following command to automatically mark all the missing files as gone:

bk -r check -ag | bk -R gone -

OPTIONS
−q be quiet.

NOTE
Just adding the key to the gone file does not make the file “go away.” All it does is make BitKeeper be happy if the file is actually gone. If you want to really remove the file, save the key, physically remove the file, and run bk −r check −a. If that complains, run bk gone on the listed keys.

SEE ALSO
bk-check

CATEGORY
Admin

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