makeclean

Removes generated and downloaded files from code projects to free up space.

Features:

• List, cleans and archives projects depending on how long you haven't touched them.
• Respects .gitignore files even outside Git repositories. Build tools often create a .gitignore file when initializing a new project, so this makes sure that the dependencies are not traversed even in case you have not initialized the Git repository yet.
• Supports .ignore files, which have the same semantics as .gitignore files and are supported by search tools such as ripgrep and The Silver Searcher.
• Ignores hidden directories.

Currently supports the following build tools:

• Cargo
• Elm
• Flutter
• Gradle (Assumes $buildDir is set to the default value $projectDir/build! See gradle.rs)
• Mix
• NPM

Table of contents:

• Installation
• Usage
  • List projects
  • Clean projects
  • Clean + archive projects
• Hack it
  • Checklist for adding a new build tool
• License

Installation

Install using Cargo:

cargo install makeclean

Current release: 1.3.0

Usage

Run makeclean --help to see all available options.

List projects

List all projects that are "stale", that is, have not been changed recently, under a given path, using --list/-l:

makeclean --list ~/projects

By default, a project is considered stale if there weren't any changed for at least a month. You can change this by using --min-stale/-m; for example, to consider all projects that have not been modified within the last 2 weeks:

makeclean --list --min-stale=2w ~/projects

Set --min-stale to zero to disable the check:

makeclean --list --min-stale=0 ~/projects

You can also filter by build tool using --type/-t:

makeclean --list --type npm ~/projects

Clean projects

By default, makeclean looks for any projects that haven't been touched for a month, and offers to clean them:

makeclean ~/projects

Use --dry-run/-n to see what would happen, without actually deleting anything:

makeclean --dry-run ~/projects

If you run makeclean in a script and don't want the prompt, you can pass --yes to proceed automatically:

makeclean --yes ~/projects

You can also specify multiple directories at once. For example, to regularly clean up some scratch directories, you could add something like this to crontab or a startup script:

makeclean --min-stale=1w --yes \
  ~/code/rust-playground \
  ~/code/elm-playground \
  ~/code/flutter-playground

Clean + archive projects

If you also want to archive the projects after cleaning them up, pass --archive. For example, the following command would replace the contents of ~/projects/foo with ~/projects/foo.tar.xz, after cleaning it:

makeclean --archive ~/projects/foo

Note that while --archive also considers cleaned projects, it still respects --min-stale. If makeclean doesn't find your project but you think it should, try again with the environment variable RUST_LOG set to trace, e.g., RUST_LOG=trace makeclean --archive ~/projects/foo. You should see a hint as to why the project was not considered. If the logs don't tell you what's going on, please consider creating a GitHub issue.

To restore the project, use tar (which is probably already installed on your system):

cd ~/projects/foo
tar -xaf foo.tar.xz && rm foo.tar.xz

Hack it

PRs welcome! Check out the documentation on crates.io to get started. Feel free to create a GitHub issue if you have any questions.

Checklist for adding a new build tool

1. Add applicable project types to the BuildToolKind enum in src/build_tools.rs.
2. Add the new module to src/build_tools.rs, creating a file below src/build_tools/.
3. Add register call to BuildToolManager::default in src/build_tool_manager.rs.
4. Add module and init function to tests/util/ and to the tools array at tests/tests/build_tools.rs.

License

MIT. Any contributions are assumed MIT-licensed as well.