Introduce an archiving mechanism for deleted repos
So far, if the preserveGitRepository option was set to false, once a
repository was deleted, there was no way to recover it. Even if this
makes sense, mistakes happen and it could be handy to have a backup
mechanism when they occur. Besides, in some environments it could be
desirable to give end users the permission to delete their own projects
as this reduces the administrative tasks. In this case, being able to
recover mistakenly deleted repositories could be even more critical.
Introduce a new option to archive a repository instead of deleting it.
This will allow the administrators to recover the git repositories in
case of deletion by mistake. From the user point of view, and even for
Gerrit, the repository is deleted as it is no longer available given it
is moved to a different name and under a different, configurable named,
folder.
The archived repositories are kept for a configurable amount of time
after which they are deleted; the auto-cleaning of the archived git
repositories is done periodically, i.e., once a day.
Three new configuration fields are added to customize the behaviour of
this feature:
- archiveDeletedRepos: whether to enable this feature. By default
false.
- archiveFolder: the path of the target archive folder. By default,
the plugin data folder.
- deleteArchivedReposAfter: the time period to keep the archived git
repositories. By default, 180 days. If archiveDeletedRepos is true
but this values is set to 0, the periodic task will not run and the
archived repositories need to be cleaned manually or using an
external task.
Change-Id: I62985e8ffa5e3300c6927507e793dffd7aa2e54c
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