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Author: Martin Edström <[email protected]>
Commit: Martin Edström <[email protected]>
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solution by the fact
* Appendix: On referring to inodes instead of truenames
-I have a theory that if de-dup is all you want, it would be possible by making
use of the function =file-attribute-file-identifier=.
+I have a theory that if de-dup is all you want, it would be possible by making
use of the Emacs 29 function =file-attribute-file-identifier=.
I've not tried that. However, the truename-based method brings some upsides.
1. It's more hacker-friendly: when something needs debugging, better to see a
file name than some meaningless inode number.
-2. With inodes, you must make an arbitrary choice of which of any two
duplicates to keep as "canonical".
+2. With inodes, you must make an arbitrary choice about which of any two
duplicates to keep as "canonical".
3. Once you have a list of true names, it is easy to sort, filter and
manipulate correctly.
