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[elpa] externals/dired-duplicates 6df828caac 41/57: README.org: Add more detailed explanations |
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Sat, 4 Nov 2023 06:58:30 -0400 (EDT) |
branch: externals/dired-duplicates
commit 6df828caacdb5517f93423b1077af08104d217d4
Author: Harald Judt <h.judt@gmx.at>
Commit: Harald Judt <h.judt@gmx.at>
README.org: Add more detailed explanations
---
README.org | 17 ++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README.org b/README.org
index abece490f4..c5ddf4b40f 100644
--- a/README.org
+++ b/README.org
@@ -4,19 +4,26 @@
This Emacs package helps to find duplicate files on local and remote
filesystems. It is similar to the fdupes command-line utility but written in
Emacs Lisp and should also work on every remote filesystem that TRAMP supports
-and where executable commands can be called remotely.
+and where executable commands can be called remotely. The most common use case
+for this is probably finding and deleting unneeded duplicate files.
dired-duplicates works by first searching files of the same size, then invoking
the calculation of the checksum for these files, and finally presenting the
grouped results in a Dired buffer that the user can work with similarly to a
regular Dired buffer. It might be even possible to combine this with other
-Dired extension packages, like =dired-narrow=. The results will be grouped
-visually by using a temporary file serving as a separator.
+Dired extension packages, like =dired-narrow=.
+
+The results will be grouped visually by using a temporary file serving as a
+separator - the author has not yet found any way of making dired add an empty
+line or similar to achieve some sort of separation, but this grouping with a
+temporary file can also be deactivated.
* Requirements
For performance reasons, a checksum program like =md5= or =sha256sum= will be
used for generating checksums of file contents and therefore needs to be
-available and executable on the local and/or remote hosts. The name of the
+available and executable on the local and/or remote hosts. That way, no files
+need to be read over possibly slow networks and calculating the checksum will
+be much faster when directly executed on remote hosts. The name of the
checksum program can be customized.
* Installation
@@ -36,5 +43,5 @@ entering =dired-duplicates= for the desired group. These
options are described
extensively there.
* License
-This package is licensed under GPL-3. See the =LICENSE= file for more
+This package is licensed under GPL-3. See the =LICENSE= file for more
information.
- [elpa] externals/dired-duplicates b8fa486b80 22/57: flymake: Fix unused variables, (continued)
- [elpa] externals/dired-duplicates b8fa486b80 22/57: flymake: Fix unused variables, ELPA Syncer, 2023/11/04
- [elpa] externals/dired-duplicates 86a12647a5 23/57: flymake: Fix unknown and deprecated function warnings, ELPA Syncer, 2023/11/04
- [elpa] externals/dired-duplicates 193e498e5d 25/57: Fix indentation and find-duplicates-with-separator-file macro var names, ELPA Syncer, 2023/11/04
- [elpa] externals/dired-duplicates 0dc415a2b1 28/57: Rename source file to match package name, ELPA Syncer, 2023/11/04
- [elpa] externals/dired-duplicates ad2855a5e0 29/57: Add package information and GPL-3 license, ELPA Syncer, 2023/11/04
- [elpa] externals/dired-duplicates 6508b208e2 30/57: Add option to search directories recursively or not, ELPA Syncer, 2023/11/04
- [elpa] externals/dired-duplicates 03ad95f3a9 31/57: Add README.org, ELPA Syncer, 2023/11/04
- [elpa] externals/dired-duplicates 4cfe600a15 36/57: Use user-error instead of error in find-duplicates-checksum-file, ELPA Syncer, 2023/11/04
- [elpa] externals/dired-duplicates b4a7b0a3e7 38/57: Lower required emacs version to 27.1, ELPA Syncer, 2023/11/04
- [elpa] externals/dired-duplicates 31c1aa8880 40/57: Rename all occurrences of find-duplicates to dired-duplicates, ELPA Syncer, 2023/11/04
- [elpa] externals/dired-duplicates 6df828caac 41/57: README.org: Add more detailed explanations,
ELPA Syncer <=
- [elpa] externals/dired-duplicates 887560b192 42/57: Get rid of separator files, ELPA Syncer, 2023/11/04
- [elpa] externals/dired-duplicates 4c17bcdcc0 43/57: Separate search results using empty lines, ELPA Syncer, 2023/11/04
- [elpa] externals/dired-duplicates 0a9a5d8b65 44/57: Make separating results optional again, ELPA Syncer, 2023/11/04
- [elpa] externals/dired-duplicates 4664aed213 46/57: Fix truncating directories when calling dired-duplicates non-interactively, ELPA Syncer, 2023/11/04
- [elpa] externals/dired-duplicates 94319f44f7 47/57: Improve checking parameters and handling parameter errors, ELPA Syncer, 2023/11/04
- [elpa] externals/dired-duplicates 3c16f56388 48/57: Install workarounds for Emacs Dired bug #57565, ELPA Syncer, 2023/11/04
- [elpa] externals/dired-duplicates c6193334fd 50/57: Update copyright notice to point to the FSF, ELPA Syncer, 2023/11/04
- [elpa] externals/dired-duplicates c1dbfc5bcd 53/57: Improve error handling of checksum program, ELPA Syncer, 2023/11/04
- [elpa] externals/dired-duplicates b5a9eb1cc1 26/57: flymake: Fix warning about unused lexical variables, ELPA Syncer, 2023/11/04
- [elpa] externals/dired-duplicates 4fde2fbfa7 33/57: Fix first lines of docstrings, ELPA Syncer, 2023/11/04