Bug#643011: ITP: dupmerge2 -- dupmerge2 finds and hardlinks identical files
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 15:44, Ludovic Seegmuller <draco91@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> * Package name : dupmerge2
> Version : 0.1
> Upstream Author : Ludovic Seegmuller <draco91@bigfoot.com>
> * URL : http://code.google.com/p/dupmerge2/
> * License : GPL
> Programming Lang: C++
> Description : dupmerge2 finds and hardlinks identical files
>
> dupmerge2 finds identical files in a given directory, identify identical files
> and hardlink them to save space. It has the ability to produce ouput for
> zenity --progress.
>
> The initial concept is from dupmerge 1.73 by Phil Karn, has less features but
> hopefully offers better performance. It adds the ability to output to zenity
> progress bar and scans the directory with ftw. It should also better handle
> existing hardlinks (skipping the file comparison).
How is different from fdupes and what's the advantages over it
justifying its inclusion in Debian?
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