How to run GC?

[hacdias]

While working on testground/testground#58, I hit myself on a wall: how can we call the Garbage Collector programmatically?

[hacdias]

/cc @Stebalien (also, please let me know if there's someone else i should ping instead)

[Stebalien]

ipfs repo gc. However, this isn't exposed over the CoreAPI. Take a look core/commands/repo.go (the repoGcCmd) for how this is implemented internally.

[lidel]

repoGcCmd does:

kubo/core/commands/repo.go

Line 86 in 8bba03d

gcOutChan := corerepo.GarbageCollectAsync(n, req.Context)

If doing the same is not feasible, consider opening PR that adds it to https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/tree/master/client/rpc