Replace duplicates with symlinks [SOLVED]

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 15:27 -0400, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 14:30 -0400, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> > 
> >> 	Very interesting.... I wonder how it compares the files and decides 
> >> which to delete? By name alone? File size? Time stamp? And does it move 
> >> the files to the Trash, or somewhere else? More research is needed....
> > 
> > Interesting tool.  However, you need to be very careful about merging
> > file with it.  It compares files by checksumming the contents.  Files
> > which are identical at a point in time, may not be appropriate to
> > replace with either hardlinks or symlinks. The tool found a lot if
> > identical files in my .evolution directory which would not be
> > appropriate to symlink.
> 
> 	Hmmm, so it will only merge 2 files if they have identical contents? 
> e.g. 2 text.txt files will be merged, unless one has an extra letter?

I do not see how it could work in any other way.
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