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adrianlopezroche / fdupes

FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.
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fdupes should ignore the .git folder, it makes no sense to delete file from repository clones #168

Closed ricardosierra closed 2 years ago

ricardosierra commented 2 years ago

I ran the command "fdupes -r -d -i -o time --reverse --noprompt ./" and it ended up removing files in the .git folder. can i revert? Wasn't the program to ignore the git folder? That doesn't make any sense!

adrianlopezroche commented 2 years ago

I really should add an --exclude option, but hardcoding the exclusion of .git directories is out of the question. There's an option to exclude hidden files and folders such as .git in fdupes already (-A --nohidden), but without it fdupes will treat .git directories just like any other. Unfortunately, there is no way to revert.