Compute the content hash only when head and tail match (closes #61)
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A file of 10 MiB or more now gets only its 64 KiB head and tail in the
hash phase, so its content is read only when it can be a duplicate. A
new content phase after the update phase finds every group of records,
anywhere in the database, that share size, head and tail and include
one without a content hash. It checks every member with lstat and, when
at least two pass, reads those without a content hash through the
existing worker pool; a stale file does not count as a match. report
and trees leave out records without a content hash. The README, help
text and TODO entry describe the gate; the schema stays at version 1.

Lint suppressed: gosec on the file open in hashContentOnly, as in
hashSignature, and on one chmod in a test.

Model: opus-5-5
This commit was merged in pull request #65.
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commit c737490a53
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@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
// Files are considered duplicates when their sizes are equal and they
// agree on a short ladder of SHA-256 hashes. A file under 10 MiB is
// hashed in full. A larger file is compared on the hashes of its first
// and last 64 KiB and on a content hash: of the whole file when it is
// and last 64 KiB, and only when those match another file's is its
// content hash computed and compared: of the whole file when it is
// under 50 MiB, or of gigabyte-spaced 1 MiB samples when it is 50 MiB
// or larger. scan maintains a persistent SQLite database of file
// signatures (SFDUPES_DATABASE, default /var/lib/sfdupes/db.sqlite)
@@ -100,7 +101,7 @@ func run(args []string, stderr io.Writer) int {
func newRootCommand(stderr io.Writer) *cobra.Command {
root := &cobra.Command{
Use: "sfdupes",
Short: "Find candidate duplicate files by size and head/tail SHA-256",
Short: "Find candidate duplicate files by size and head/tail/content SHA-256",
Version: Version,
Args: cobra.NoArgs,
RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
@@ -130,7 +131,7 @@ func newRootCommand(stderr io.Writer) *cobra.Command {
}),
}
scanCmd.Flags().IntVar(&scanWorkers, "workers", runtime.NumCPU(),
"concurrent workers for the walk and hash phases")
"concurrent workers for the walk, hash, and content phases")
scanCmd.Flags().BoolVarP(&scanOneFS, "one-file-system", "x", false,
"do not cross filesystem boundaries")