[jonbronson]

It seems weird that deletion is prohibited. As we grow as people, sometimes we no longer want to associate something with ourselves. A photo we don't want to remember, for instance. This feels like an unnecessary restriction.

[have_faith]

> no delete support

Yeah that's a show stopper. There's just way too many scenarios where's you need to delete something.

[amelius]

For instance if forced by law.

[1ris]

Delete is not (or only very poorly) supported in git as well. For almost all use cases this is correct way.

[skybrian]

Perkeep is for single users so the use case to compare with is a private git repo.

If you're not publishing anything, reverting the last change is easy and a rebase isn't that hard.

[0xCMP]

You "can't delete" but there are in-fact ways to clean up deleted items and get rid of them completely.

[otakucode]

If there are no references to the GUID of the item, you could easily simply consider it deleted. There would be no practical way to find it, after all. There is no "list all" or anything like that (as I understand it). You can't say 'Show me how much of the 128 bit space I've filled' and then iterate through each piece..

[star-techate]

key words:

1. child porn

2. steganography

if I were the dev I'd add a 'list all' just to avoid anyone thinking the above were a good plan.

[nrolans]

I don't think it's prohibited, see linked issues below. I have been keeping an eye on the project and that feature for several years. I am using zfs snapshots locally and borg backup for now. It is not comparable but does the job for now.

https://github.com/perkeep/perkeep/issues/792 https://github.com/perkeep/perkeep/issues/1076