Compare with fdupes

[piranna]

Add a compare with fdupes: performance, features...

[pkolaczk]

The benchmarks in README.md already include fdupes.
But why do you think comparing features would be useful?
I don't want to do this, because this could become very long and it can easily be perceived as claiming "my program is better than yours" which I want to avoid. I listed the features of fclones in detail, isn't it sufficient?

[piranna]

Sorry for the benchmarks, didn't see them before, really are impresive 👍

Competition is not bad if it allow for improvement. One of the things I mostly miss from fdupes is that's not possible to include as a library, while with Rust is fairly easy :-) My question was more about to compare what features does each one offer. For example, a feature I use a lot from fdupes is the option to delete files interactively, I don't see any flag for fclones to do so :-)

[pkolaczk]

That's right, fclones doesn't offer any way of deleting files automatically yet. I believe this is a task for a different program (or a subcommand) that would take output of fclones.

[piranna]

From a UNIX perspective, yes, it makes sense that task being done by another command, but being so much attached to fclones output format... :-/ Maybe a shell script wrapper that offer a compatible interface with fdupes? :-) That would be easy to implement, but not sure if It should be hosted here un fclones repo or being totally independent...

[aurelg]

Follow-up proposed in #27

[pkolaczk]

To wrap it up:

• Benchmarks are included in README
• I added the Limitations section to the README

Let me close this and leave #27 as the main ticket for adding the automatic file removal feature.