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Re: Bug#509685: ITP: hardlink -- Hardlink multiple copies of the same file



On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 13:23, Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 12:04:43PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
>> Julian Andres Klode wrote:
>> >
>> >  Hardlink is a tool which detects multiple copies of the same file and replaces
>> >  them with hardlinks.
>> >  .
>> >  The idea has been taken from http://code.google.com/p/hardlinkpy/, but the
>> >  code has been written from scratch and licensed under the MIT license.
>>
>> Do we really need another tool like this?
>>
>> We already have these packages:
>>
>>   fdupes
>>   perforate
> AFAIK, they do not replace files, they just find them.

I'd happily accept patches for #284274

Cheers,
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Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu)
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