eelbrain.pipeline.Pipeline.clean_cache

Pipeline.clean_cache(dry_run=False, delete=False, revalidate=True)

Report and delete invalid or stale cache files (garbage collection).

Parameters:

• dry_run (bool) – Only scan and report; delete nothing.

• delete (bool) – Delete stale files without asking for confirmation.

• revalidate (bool) – Detect stale artifacts by re-validating each cached request against the current pipeline configuration. Set to False for a faster scan restricted to structurally invalid files.

Returns:

Per-category summary of the scan (file counts and sizes).

Return type:

report_table