Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
New FeaturesKind: in v2.1.248,
New FeaturesSection of the release
What
The helper that deletes files older than a cutoff accepts an optional check, given each file's path and stats, that keeps the file instead of deleting it. Retained files are counted separately from deleted ones.
Details
Supplied by whichever code runs the sweep; there is no setting or flag for it.
Evidence
filesRetainedFresh++
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.