On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 01:12:20PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 01:33:34AM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote: > > If two files to be compared share the same inode, it should > > be reasonable to consider them identical. > > > > This gives a substantial speedup when comparing directory > > structures with many hardlinked files, e.g. when using > > rsnapshot for incremental backup. > > > > Comments? OK? > > ok stsp@ > > I have a side-project where I'll consider adding this, too.
And OpenCVS/OpenRCS contain derived files (diff_internals.c / diff.c) which could also benefit from this change.
