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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-14 19:33:34 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-14 19:33:34 +0000
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parentReleasing progress-linux version 2.39.3-11~progress7.99u1. (diff)
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Merging upstream version 2.40.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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to fit a number of cached content checksums.
*-d*, *--respect-dir*::
-Only try to link files with the same directory name. The top-level directory (as specified on the hardlink command line) is ignored. For example, *hardlink --respect-dir /foo /bar* will link _/foo/some/file_ with _/bar/some/file_, but not _/bar/other/file_. If combined with *--respect-name*, then entire paths (except the top-level directory) are compared.
+Only try to link files with the same directory name. The top-level directory (as specified on the *hardlink* command line) is ignored. For example, *hardlink --respect-dir /foo /bar* will link _/foo/some/file_ with _/bar/some/file_, but not _/bar/other/file_. If combined with *--respect-name*, then entire paths (except the top-level directory) are compared.
*-f*, *--respect-name*::
Only try to link files with the same (base)name. It's strongly recommended to use long options rather than *-f* which is interpreted in a different way by other *hardlink* implementations.