files.dat was the scan format before the SQLite database; nothing has
produced it since. Drop the stale references from the Makefile clean
target, .gitignore and .dockerignore. make clean still removes the
binary and .gitignore still covers the database files. The only
remaining mention is the historical entry in TODO.md.
Model: opus-4-8 (implementation); fable-5-1 (merge)
scan now synchronizes a database that survives between runs
(SFDUPES_DATABASE, default /var/lib/sfdupes/db.sqlite) instead of
emitting a stream: operands are resolved to absolute paths, unchanged
files (same size, mtime not newer than recorded) are never re-read, new
and changed files are hashed, and records under the scanned operands
that were not verified this run are deleted; records outside the
operands are untouched. All changes commit in a single transaction, and
WAL journaling with a busy timeout keeps a report run during a cron
scan safe.
report and trees read the database (no positional arguments); the
NUL-terminated stream format, its parser, and the malformed-record
handling are gone. The driver is modernc.org/sqlite (pure Go), so
builds keep cgo disabled.