tracker: Make it superscary to reset databases

This is possibly a data loss situation, so warn the user that this is
possibly what will happen.

2 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/tracker/tracker-color.h b/src/tracker/tracker-color.h
index a297f8126..53d730376 100644
--- a/src/tracker/tracker-color.h
+++ b/src/tracker/tracker-color.h
@@ -29,4 +29,7 @@
 #define WARN_BEGIN    "\033[33m"   /* Yellow */
 #define WARN_END      "\033[0m"
 
+#define CRIT_BEGIN "\033[1;31m" /* Red */
+#define CRIT_END   "\033[0m"
+
 #endif /* __TRACKER_COLOR_H__ */
diff --git a/src/tracker/tracker-reset.c b/src/tracker/tracker-reset.c
index 6e67a18a3..c92389f94 100644
--- a/src/tracker/tracker-reset.c
+++ b/src/tracker/tracker-reset.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include "config.h"
 
 #include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
 
 #include <glib.h>
 #include <glib/gi18n.h>
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@
 #include "tracker-daemon.h"
 #include "tracker-process.h"
 #include "tracker-config.h"
+#include "tracker-color.h"
 
 static gboolean hard_reset;
 static gboolean soft_reset;
@@ -134,6 +136,32 @@ reset_run (void)
 		return EXIT_FAILURE;
 	}
 
+	if (hard_reset || soft_reset) {
+		gchar response[100] = { 0 };
+
+		g_print (CRIT_BEGIN "%s" CRIT_END "\n%s\n\n%s %s: ",
+		         _("CAUTION: This process may irreversibly delete data."),
+		         _("Although most content indexed by Tracker can "
+		           "be safely reindexed, it can't be assured that "
+		           "this is the case for all data. Be aware that "
+		           "you may be incurring in a data loss situation, "
+		           "proceed at your own risk."),
+		         _("Are you sure you want to proceed?"),
+		         /* TRANSLATORS: This is to be displayed on command line output */
+		         _("[y|N]"));
+
+		fgets (response, 100, stdin);
+		response[strlen (response) - 1] = '\0';
+
+		/* TRANSLATORS: this is our test for a [y|N] question in the command line.
+		 * A partial or full match will be considered an affirmative answer,
+		 * it is intentionally lowercase, so please keep it like this.
+		 */
+		if (!response[0] || !g_str_has_prefix (_("yes"), response)) {
+			return EXIT_FAILURE;
+		}
+	}
+
 	/* KILL processes first... */
 	if (hard_reset || soft_reset) {
 		tracker_process_stop (TRACKER_PROCESS_TYPE_NONE, TRACKER_PROCESS_TYPE_ALL);