When an admin or owner deletes a repository, Kallithea does

    kallithea-cli repo-purge-deleted -c my.ini --older-than=30d

the ``--no-ask`` flag). If you host a large amount of repositories with

import datetime

import os

import re

import shutil

from kallithea.lib.paster_commands.common import ask_ok

from kallithea.lib.utils import repo2db_mapper, REMOVED_REPO_PAT

from kallithea.lib.utils2 import safe_unicode, safe_str

from kallithea.model.db import Repository, Ui

@cli_base.register_command(config_file_initialize_app=True)

@click.option('--ask/--no-ask', default=True, help='Ask for confirmation or not. Default is --ask.')

@click.option('--older-than',

        help="""Only purge repositories that have been removed at least the given time ago.

        For example, '--older-than=30d' purges repositories deleted 30 days ago or longer.

        Possible suffixes: d (days), h (hours), m (minutes), s (seconds).""")

def repo_purge_deleted(ask, older_than):

    """Purge backups of deleted repositories.

    When a repository is deleted via the Kallithea web interface, the actual

    data is still present on the filesystem but set aside using a special name.

    This command allows to delete these files permanently.

    """

    def _parse_older_than(val):

        regex = re.compile(r'((?P<days>\d+?)d)?((?P<hours>\d+?)h)?((?P<minutes>\d+?)m)?((?P<seconds>\d+?)s)?')

        parts = regex.match(val)

        if not parts:

            return

        parts = parts.groupdict()

        time_params = {}

        for (name, param) in parts.iteritems():

            if param:

                time_params[name] = int(param)

        return datetime.timedelta(**time_params)

    def _extract_date(name):

        """

        Extract the date part from rm__<date> pattern of removed repos,

        and convert it to datetime object

        :param name:

        """

        date_part = name[4:19]  # 4:19 since we don't parse milliseconds

        return datetime.datetime.strptime(date_part, '%Y%m%d_%H%M%S')

    repos_location = Ui.get_repos_location()

    to_remove = []

    for dn_, dirs, f in os.walk(safe_str(repos_location)):

        alldirs = list(dirs)

        del dirs[:]

        if ('.hg' in alldirs or

            '.git' in alldirs or

            '.svn' in alldirs or

            'objects' in alldirs and ('refs' in alldirs or 'packed-refs' in f)):

            continue

        for loc in alldirs:

            if REMOVED_REPO_PAT.match(loc):

                to_remove.append([os.path.join(dn_, loc),

                                  _extract_date(loc)])

            else:

                dirs.append(loc)

        if dirs:

            click.echo('Scanning: %s' % dn_)

    # filter older than (if present)!

    now = datetime.datetime.now()

    if older_than:

        to_remove_filtered = []

        older_than_date = _parse_older_than(older_than)

        for name, date_ in to_remove:

            repo_age = now - date_

            if repo_age > older_than_date:

                to_remove_filtered.append([name, date_])

        to_remove = to_remove_filtered

        click.echo('Purging %s deleted repos older than %s (%s)'

            % (len(to_remove), older_than, older_than_date))

    else:

        click.echo('Purging all %s deleted repos' % len(to_remove))

    if not ask or not to_remove:

        # don't ask just remove !

        remove = True

    else:

        remove = ask_ok('The following repositories will be removed completely:\n%s\n'

                'Do you want to proceed? [y/n] '

                % '\n'.join(['%s deleted on %s' % (safe_str(x[0]), safe_str(x[1]))

                                     for x in to_remove]))

    if remove:

        for path, date_ in to_remove:

            click.echo('Purging repository %s' % path)

            shutil.rmtree(path)

    else:

        click.echo('Nothing done, exiting...')