Feature request: registry update does not fix a broken registry

[fonsp]

One of our students had a broken registry: the folder ~/.julia/registries/General was missing the A through F subfolders (not sure why), but running registry update did not fix it.

The solution was to delete the folder manually, but would it be possible for registry update to do an integrity check? Or could we add a new method to reset a registry?

[fonsp]

Sorry I just realised that registry remove General will reset it :)

EDIT: not always true? #2017

[fredrikekre]

Windows presumably?

[ThirdEyeSqueegee]

Windows presumably?

Yes!

[IanButterworth]

The move to a tarball registry should mean this is fixed, unless the user is sustaining a non-tarball registry.. which might be a lot of people who are upgrading from older versions?
Not sure whether this can be closed now

[KristofferC]

unless the user is sustaining a non-tarball registry

This should only be the case if one is using git.

So I think this can be closed.