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

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>]

John Goerzen, le Thu 25 Dec 2008 12:04:43 -0600, a écrit :
> 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:
> 
>   perforate

Nothing to do with this.

>   fdupes

That one would be an argument for "hardlink is a duplicate" _if_ #284274
was fixed.  Else, hardlink is really useful.

Samuel