From d0b641d27ab78fd5dfb5fd21ad94e1037d7c5ccd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: notactuallyfinn <michael.fritzsche@dlr.de>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2026 15:14:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] remove auditfile from log handlers and formatters

---
 src/hermes/logger.py | 18 ++++--------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/hermes/logger.py b/src/hermes/logger.py
index 2c184f79..19dce9f5 100644
--- a/src/hermes/logger.py
+++ b/src/hermes/logger.py
@@ -15,8 +15,7 @@
 
     'formatters': {
         'plain': {'format': "%(message)s"},
-        'logfile': {'format': "%(created)16f:%(name)20s:%(levelname)10s | %(message)s"},
-        'auditlog': {'format': "%(asctime)s %(name)-20s  %(message)s"},
+        'logfile': {'format': "%(created)16f:%(name)20s:%(levelname)10s | %(message)s"}
     },
 
     'handlers': {
@@ -32,22 +31,14 @@
             'formatter': "logfile",
             'level': "DEBUG",
             'filename': "./hermes.log",
-        },
-
-        'auditfile': {
-            'class': "logging.FileHandler",
-            'formatter': "plain",
-            'level': "DEBUG",
-            'filename': "./.hermes/audit.log",
-            'mode': "w",
-        },
+        }
     },
 
     'loggers': {
         'cli': {'level': "DEBUG", 'handlers': ['terminal']},
         'hermes': {'level': "DEBUG", 'handlers': ['terminal', 'logfile']},
-        'audit': {'level': "DEBUG", 'handlers': ['terminal', 'logfile']},
-    },
+        'audit': {'level': "DEBUG", 'handlers': ['terminal', 'logfile']}
+    }
 }
 
 _loggers = {}
@@ -59,7 +50,6 @@ def init_logging():
 
     # Make sure the directories to hold the log files exists (or else create)
     pathlib.Path(_logging_config['handlers']['logfile']['filename']).parent.mkdir(exist_ok=True, parents=True)
-    pathlib.Path(_logging_config['handlers']['auditfile']['filename']).parent.mkdir(exist_ok=True, parents=True)
 
     # Inintialize logging system
     import logging.config

From 15d1a763ff3cc5167d3a8e4c90278ac6522de9a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: notactuallyfinn <michael.fritzsche@dlr.de>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2026 15:15:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] add exception handling to shutil.rmtree in init and clean
 commands

---
 src/hermes/commands/clean/base.py | 12 +++++++-----
 src/hermes/commands/init/base.py  |  9 ++++++++-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/hermes/commands/clean/base.py b/src/hermes/commands/clean/base.py
index b588faf5..02931858 100644
--- a/src/hermes/commands/clean/base.py
+++ b/src/hermes/commands/clean/base.py
@@ -27,8 +27,10 @@ def __call__(self, args: argparse.Namespace) -> None:
         self.log.info("Removing HERMES caches...")
 
         # Naive implementation for now... check errors, validate directory, don't construct the path ourselves, etc.
-        shutil.rmtree(args.path / '.hermes')
-
-    def load_settings(self, args: argparse.Namespace):
-        """No settings are needed for the clean command."""
-        pass
+        try:
+            path = args.path / '.hermes'
+            shutil.rmtree(path)
+        except FileNotFoundError:
+            pass
+        except Exception as exc:
+            self.log.warning(f"{path} couldn't be cleaned: {exc}")
diff --git a/src/hermes/commands/init/base.py b/src/hermes/commands/init/base.py
index 2f0eb6f8..f94cb01d 100644
--- a/src/hermes/commands/init/base.py
+++ b/src/hermes/commands/init/base.py
@@ -1000,7 +1000,14 @@ def clean_up_files(self, aborted: bool) -> None:
         sc.echo("Cleaning unused files...")
         hidden_hermes_path = Path(".hermes")
         if hidden_hermes_path.exists() and hidden_hermes_path.is_dir():
-            shutil.rmtree(hidden_hermes_path)
+            try:
+                shutil.rmtree(hidden_hermes_path)
+            except Exception as exc:
+                sc.echo(
+                    f"{hidden_hermes_path} couldn't be cleaned: {exc}",
+                    formatting=sc.Formats.WARNING,
+                    log_as=logging.ERROR
+                )
         if aborted:
             if not self.hermes_was_already_installed:
                 for path in reversed(self.new_created_paths):

From 09ec0f223ac4fe6fc345a921807913744a5eb0e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: notactuallyfinn <michael.fritzsche@dlr.de>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2026 11:15:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] remove audit.log from docs

---
 docs/source/dev/data_model.md | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/source/dev/data_model.md b/docs/source/dev/data_model.md
index c9d59f36..2b011b25 100644
--- a/docs/source/dev/data_model.md
+++ b/docs/source/dev/data_model.md
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ Output of the different `hermes` subcommands consequently are valid JSON-LD file
 subdirectories of the `.hermes/` directory that is created in the root of the project directory (see following diagram).
 ```
 .hermes
-│  audit.log
 ├──curate
 │  └──result
 │     ├──codemeta.json