scan: show each phase as N of M, with progress, elapsed time and ETA, also while it waits (closes #112)

Every scan display now names its phase and its place among the five,
as "[2/5] walk", with its progress, rate, elapsed time and ETA. load
counts the records first; the walk estimates its total from the
records under the operands; the content phase adds up the sizes of the
matching groups and says it is searching until the first record
returns. Each display is drawn from its own goroutine: several times a
second on a terminal, every 5 seconds in plain mode.

On a terminal a phase with an exact total draws its line before the
library's bar when there is room, and any other a spinner before the
line. A line too wide drops its rate, then its bar; it is cut only when
the phase, progress, elapsed time and ETA alone do not fit.

Judgement call: load and the content checks draw the bar too, once their totals are known.
Judgement call: the bar is 10 columns wide, not the width the line leaves.

Model: opus-5-5

Dockerfile

@@ -1,23 +1,16 @@
-# In every stage ARG CACHEBUST comes right after the steps that install
+# Every stage declares ARG CACHEBUST first: script/ passes a new value
-# system packages and download Go's modules, or right after FROM in a
+# on every build, which reruns every RUN step after it. The steps that
-# stage with neither, and every step that lints, tests or compiles
+# compile mount Go's build cache, which survives from build to build.
-# comes after it. script/ passes a new value on every build, which
-# reruns every RUN step after it. Docker keeps the layers above it
-# until the base image, their own lines or go.mod and go.sum change.
-# The steps that compile mount Go's build cache, and golangci-lint run
-# also mounts golangci-lint's; both survive from build to build. The
-# test phase runs as nobody and so mounts Go's build cache at
-# /tmp/.cache/go-build; its own comment says why.
 
 # Lint phase, built alone by script/lint. The tools are invoked directly
 # rather than through `make lint`, which runs docker itself and so cannot
 # run inside a build step.
 # golangci/golangci-lint:v2.14.0, 2026-10-07
 FROM golangci/golangci-lint@sha256:ad862ba6b3798cbe0fd9fd7408d498fd74fbd2623a92406b2fd3898faf0bf98f AS lint
+ARG CACHEBUST
 WORKDIR /src
 COPY go.mod go.sum ./
 RUN go mod download
-ARG CACHEBUST
 COPY . .
 
 # The gofmt half of `make fmt-check`. gofmt's output is assigned to a
@@ -31,7 +24,6 @@ RUN files="$(gofmt -s -l .)" && \
 # Validates .golangci.yml against the schema the pinned binary embeds.
 RUN golangci-lint config verify --config .golangci.yml
 RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/go-build \
-    --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/golangci-lint \
     golangci-lint run --config .golangci.yml ./...
 
 # Test phase, built alone by script/test. -race needs cgo and so a C
@@ -46,12 +38,12 @@ RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/go-build \
 # nobody (65534) so the tests can write to it.
 # golang:1.25-trixie, 2026-10-04
 FROM golang@sha256:2c4c60ef415fbfa5e90300722293bef36c5e63fae17570ce18f580af933dbd73 AS test
+ARG CACHEBUST
 USER nobody
 ENV HOME=/tmp
 WORKDIR /src
 COPY go.mod go.sum ./
 RUN go mod download
-ARG CACHEBUST
 COPY . .
 RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/tmp/.cache/go-build,uid=65534,gid=65534 \
     go test -count=1 -timeout 90s -race -cover ./... || \
@@ -59,19 +51,19 @@ RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/tmp/.cache/go-build,uid=65534,gid=65534 \
       go test -count=1 -timeout 90s -race -v ./...; exit 1; }
 
 # Build stage. Nothing is wanted from either phase above; the copies are
-# what make BuildKit build them first, so nothing after them can run
+# what make BuildKit build them first, so this stage cannot run unless
-# unless lint and test passed.
+# lint and test passed.
 # golang:1.25-alpine, 2026-07-23
 FROM golang@sha256:56961d79ea8129efddcc0b8643fd8a5416b4e6228cfd477e3fd61deb2672c587 AS builder
-RUN apk add --no-cache git make
-WORKDIR /src
-COPY go.mod go.sum ./
-RUN go mod download
 ARG CACHEBUST
 COPY --from=lint /src/go.sum /dev/null
 COPY --from=test /src/go.sum /dev/null
+RUN apk add --no-cache git make
 # A tar-stream context keeps the sender's file owners, which git refuses.
 RUN git config --system --add safe.directory /src
+WORKDIR /src
+COPY go.mod go.sum ./
+RUN go mod download
 COPY . .
 
 # The version stamped into the binary: the VERSION build argument when

REPO_POLICIES.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: Repository Policies
-last_modified: 2026-10-18
+last_modified: 2026-10-15
 ---
 
 This document covers repository structure, tooling, and workflow standards. Code
@@ -159,11 +159,8 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
     one's findings, and a host-global lock in `$TMPDIR` makes concurrent runs
     exit non-zero with `parallel golangci-lint is running` — a status a caller
     cannot tell from real findings. Both have produced wrong verdicts in this
-    org, in both directions. A container has its own `TMPDIR`, so the lock is
+    org, in both directions. A container has its own golangci-lint cache, its
-    out of reach. The lint phase does keep golangci-lint's cache between check
+    own `TMPDIR` and a digest-pinned binary, so neither is reachable.
-    builds (below), but it lints every checkout at `/src`, and a finding is
-    taken from that cache only for the same files, settings and golangci-lint
-    version.
 
 - **Any build that runs checks is given a new `CACHEBUST` value.** Docker
   invalidates a `COPY` layer only when the copied content changes, so on an
@@ -173,21 +170,15 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
   id, so no two builds share a value, not even the three in one
   `script/cibuild`. `script/lint`, `script/test`, `script/cibuild` and
   `script/docker` are the four, and there is no fifth — `script/check` runs the
-  two gate phases and `script/fmt-check`, and builds no image of its own. In
+  two gate phases and `script/fmt-check`, and builds no image of its own. Every
-  every stage of the `Dockerfile`, `ARG CACHEBUST` comes right after the steps
+  stage of the `Dockerfile` declares `ARG CACHEBUST` as its first line after
-  that install system packages and download Go's modules, or right after `FROM`
+  `FROM`, and a new value reruns every `RUN` step after that line; `COPY` steps
-  in a stage with neither, and every step that lints, tests or compiles comes
+  are compared by content and need nothing. A stage without the `ARG` line is
-  after it. A step that installs anything else as well, such as a
+  served from cache on an unchanged tree, so a repository re-vendors the scripts
-  `script/bootstrap` that also installs node packages, comes after it too. A new
+  and adds the `ARG` lines in one commit. The scripts do not pass `--no-cache`:
-  value reruns every `RUN` step after that line; `COPY` steps are compared by
+  it reruns every step too, but it also empties every cache mount, and Go's
-  content and need nothing. Docker keeps the layers above the line until the
+  build cache, which the canonical Go `Dockerfile` below mounts so that compiled
-  base image, their own lines or the files they copy change. A stage without the
+  packages survive between check builds, would start empty every time. A bare
-  `ARG` line is served from cache on an unchanged tree, so a repository
-  re-vendors the scripts and adds the `ARG` lines in one commit. The scripts do
-  not pass `--no-cache`: it reruns every step too, but it also builds the layers
-  above the line again and empties every cache mount, so Go's build cache and
-  golangci-lint's, which the canonical Go `Dockerfile` below mounts so that they
-  survive between check builds, would start empty every time. A bare
   `docker build .` is not evidence that anything ran: a sub-second build
   reporting success is a cache hit, not a result. Never invalidate by pruning —
   `docker builder prune` and friends destroy a build cache shared with every
@@ -203,25 +194,19 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
   `Dockerfile`:
 
     ```dockerfile
-    # In every stage ARG CACHEBUST comes right after the steps that install
+    # Every stage declares ARG CACHEBUST first: script/ passes a new value
-    # system packages and download Go's modules, or right after FROM in a
+    # on every build, which reruns every RUN step after it. The steps that
-    # stage with neither, and every step that lints, tests or compiles
+    # compile mount Go's build cache, which survives from build to build.
-    # comes after it. script/ passes a new value on every build, which
-    # reruns every RUN step after it. Docker keeps the layers above it
-    # until the base image, their own lines or go.mod and go.sum change.
-    # The steps that compile mount Go's build cache, and golangci-lint run
-    # also mounts golangci-lint's; both survive from build to build.
 
     # Lint phase
     # golangci/golangci-lint:v2.x.x, YYYY-MM-DD
     FROM golangci/golangci-lint@sha256:... AS lint
+    ARG CACHEBUST
     WORKDIR /src
     COPY go.mod go.sum ./
     RUN go mod download
-    ARG CACHEBUST
     COPY . .
     RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/go-build \
-        --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/golangci-lint \
         golangci-lint run --config .golangci.yml ./...
 
     # Test phase. -race needs cgo and so a C compiler, which the Debian Go
@@ -229,10 +214,10 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
     # cache also holds test results, which go test would otherwise replay.
     # golang:1.x, YYYY-MM-DD
     FROM golang@sha256:... AS test
+    ARG CACHEBUST
     WORKDIR /src
     COPY go.mod go.sum ./
     RUN go mod download
-    ARG CACHEBUST
     COPY . .
     RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/go-build \
         go test -count=1 -timeout 90s -race -cover ./... || \
@@ -240,19 +225,19 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
           go test -count=1 -timeout 90s -race -v ./...; exit 1; }
 
     # Build stage. Nothing is wanted from either phase above; the copies
-    # are what make BuildKit build them first, so nothing after them can
+    # are what make BuildKit build them first, so this stage cannot run
-    # run unless lint and test passed.
+    # unless lint and test passed.
     # golang:1.x-alpine, YYYY-MM-DD
     FROM golang@sha256:... AS builder
-    RUN apk add --no-cache git
-    WORKDIR /src
-    COPY go.mod go.sum ./
-    RUN go mod download
     ARG CACHEBUST
     COPY --from=lint /src/go.sum /dev/null
     COPY --from=test /src/go.sum /dev/null
+    RUN apk add --no-cache git
     # A tar-stream context keeps the sender's file owners, which git refuses.
     RUN git config --system --add safe.directory /src
+    WORKDIR /src
+    COPY go.mod go.sum ./
+    RUN go mod download
     COPY . .
 
     # The VERSION build arg when one is given, otherwise
@@ -289,26 +274,16 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
     - Keep the runtime stage last, and if you add a stage after it, give it the
       same two copies. A plain `docker build .` builds the last stage's chain
       and nothing else.
-    - Check builds keep these, and none of them can hand back a stale result:
+    - Only Go's build cache is mounted (`/root/.cache/go-build`, where Go keeps
-        - The layers above `ARG CACHEBUST`: the system packages and Go's
+      it for root), and only on the steps that compile: `golangci-lint run`,
-          modules. Docker installs the packages again when the base image or the
+      both `go test` runs and `go build`. It keeps compiled packages between
-          install line changes, and downloads the modules again when `go.mod` or
+      check builds, and Go reuses one only when all its inputs are unchanged, so
-          `go.sum` changes. Go checks every module against `go.sum` as it
+      it saves the compile without skipping a check. Nothing else is kept:
-          downloads it, and no later build can change a kept layer. The modules
+      golangci-lint's own cache would replay stored findings in place of a lint
-          are kept in a layer rather than a cache mount because a cache mount is
+      run, and Go builds from whatever files a kept module cache holds without
-          shared by every build on the host, and Go builds from whatever files
+      checking them again (only `go mod verify` does), so a file changed there
-          it holds without checking them again (only `go mod verify` does), so a
+      would go unnoticed. Go's build cache also holds test results, which is why
-          file changed there would go unnoticed.
+      both `go test` runs carry `-count=1`.
-        - Go's build cache (`/root/.cache/go-build`, where Go keeps it for
-          root), mounted on the steps that compile: `golangci-lint run`, both
-          `go test` runs and `go build`. Go reuses a compiled package only when
-          all its inputs are unchanged. The cache also holds test results, which
-          is why both `go test` runs carry `-count=1`.
-        - golangci-lint's cache (`/root/.cache/golangci-lint`, where the pinned
-          image keeps it), mounted on `golangci-lint run`. golangci-lint reuses
-          a package's findings only when the package's files and those of every
-          package it imports, `go.mod`, the linters and their settings in
-          `.golangci.yml`, and the golangci-lint version are all unchanged.
     - If the project uses `//go:embed` directives that reference build artifacts
       (e.g. a web frontend compiled in a separate stage), the lint phase must
       create placeholder files so the embed directives resolve. Example:
@@ -317,20 +292,12 @@ style conventions are in separate documents:
       in the lint phase. The `golangci/golangci-lint` image is Debian-based and
       has no `apk`, so install with `apt-get` under the Debian package name
       (`libvips-dev`, where alpine says `vips-dev`), and delete the package
-      lists in the same `RUN`, so the layer does not keep them. The test phase,
+      lists in the same `RUN`, so the layer does not keep them:
-      on the Debian Go image, installs the libraries its tests need the same
-      way. Either install goes right after `FROM`, above `ARG CACHEBUST`, so
-      Docker keeps it until the base image or the install line changes:
 
         ```dockerfile
-        FROM golangci/golangci-lint@sha256:... AS lint
         RUN apt-get update \
             && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libvips-dev \
             && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-        WORKDIR /src
-        COPY go.mod go.sum ./
-        RUN go mod download
-        ARG CACHEBUST
         ```
 
     - `.dockerignore` lets `.git` into the build context. It keeps out every git

TODO.md

@@ -29,145 +29,6 @@
 
 # Completed Steps
 
-- `README.md` rewritten from scratch, sentence by sentence, as a newcomer reads
-  it. It leads with what the program is and how to use it. A reference section
-  covers every setting and every subcommand. Development and testing come last.
-  Every statement was checked against the code on `next`. Five comments in
-  `main_test.go` cite "Settings", where their rules now live. One comment each
-  in `scan_test.go`, `trees_test.go` and `exclude_test.go` cites what the README
-  now says (2026-10-26, https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/135)
-
-- an operand at or inside a directory named `.zfs` is never scanned, whether
-  given alone or under another operand. `scan` warns about it, counts it as
-  skipped and does not walk it (2026-10-26,
-  https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/142)
-
-- a file or directory removed while the scan runs is not an error, in the walk
-  or in the hash phase. The scan prints no line for it and does not count it as
-  skipped. When the first of several hard links to a file is gone, the hash
-  phase reads the next one instead. On a terminal every progress display starts
-  with the spinner, the hash phase's included. A phase with an exact total ends
-  its line with its percent and a 10-column bar at the terminal's right edge,
-  which no longer moves as the line's length changes. A line too wide for the
-  terminal now loses its rate before its bar. The time remaining is labelled
-  `remain`, not `eta` (2026-10-26, https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/133)
-
-- the `head`, `tail` and `content` columns are BLOBs, each holding the raw 32
-  bytes of a SHA-256, half the size of the hex text they held. The hashes stay
-  raw from the hash phase through the database to `report` and `trees`. Reading
-  a record whose hash is not 32 bytes is an error (2026-10-26,
-  https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/134)
-
-- the hash phase gives every file the walk records three hashes: `head` and
-  `tail`, the SHA-256 of its first and last 64 KiB, and `content`, the SHA-256
-  of the whole file under 100 MiB and of 1 MiB at each gigabyte from 100 MiB up.
-  The 10 MiB and 50 MiB thresholds, the size census, the records stored without
-  hashes and the content phase are gone, so a scan has four phases and a rescan
-  reads only new and changed files. `info` no longer counts the records with
-  hashes, since every record has them (2026-10-25,
-  https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/132)
-
-- re-vendor `REPO_POLICIES.md` and the four scripts that pass `CACHEBUST` from
-  `sneak/prompts` `next` at `0653579`: in the `lint`, `test` and `builder`
-  stages of the `Dockerfile` the module download, and in `builder` the
-  system-package install, now come before `ARG CACHEBUST`, so Docker keeps them
-  until the base image, the install line, `go.mod` or `go.sum` changes, and
-  every step that lints, tests or compiles still comes after it;
-  `golangci-lint run` also keeps golangci-lint's cache. README says the same
-  (2026-10-18, https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/109)
-
-- releases until 1.0 are `v0.0.N` tags on `main`'s tip, so
-  `go install sneak.berlin/go/sfdupes@latest` installs `main`'s tip once it has
-  passed the build; README "Install" says so, says what `@main` and `v0.0.1`
-  give, and how to check an installed binary. `go.mod` retracts `v0.0.1`, the
-  early build without a database. When the linker set no version,
-  `sfdupes --version` prints the main module's version that Go recorded in the
-  binary, the tag or the pseudo-version of a `go install` build, and `dev` only
-  when neither is known (2026-10-17,
-  https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/116)
-
-- `scan` creates the database's directory where the database path leads: the
-  path with its last element cut off as text, never cleaned, so a `..` after a
-  symlinked directory is followed through the symlink, as when the file is
-  opened. With `SFDUPES_DATABASE=/srv/link/../new/db.sqlite` and `/srv/link` a
-  symlink to `/data/x`, it creates `/data/new` and the database in it, where it
-  used to create `/srv/new` and then fail (2026-10-17,
-  https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/119)
-
-- `scan` never records its own database: once the database and its `.lock` file
-  are open, it notes the device and inode of the database file, its `-wal` and
-  `-shm` files and its `.lock` file, and the walk passes over a file with one of
-  them wherever the operands reach it, through a symlinked directory included,
-  printing no line and counting nothing. A record an earlier scan left for one
-  of them is deleted (2026-10-17, https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/115)
-
-- `scan` never records or reads anything that is not on a persistent filesystem
-  (`tmpfs`, `proc`, `sysfs` and the other kernel or memory-backed types),
-  matched by the device ID of each such filesystem, listed as the scan starts
-  from `/proc/self/mountinfo` on Linux and the mounted-filesystem list on macOS,
-  however the walk or the content phase reaches it; no flag turns that off.
-  Below an operand, its walk does not enter the default excludes either, so
-  `sfdupes scan /` skips the kernel's view of the running system and the
-  temporary directories: on Linux `/proc`, `/sys`, `/dev`, `/run`, `/tmp` and
-  `/var/tmp`, on macOS `/dev`, `/private/tmp`, `/private/var/tmp`,
-  `/private/var/vm`, `/System/Volumes/VM` and `/System/Volumes/Data`, and a
-  Windows list, not used yet. An operand at or inside a default exclude is still
-  walked. The scan prints a line for each path it leaves out, without counting
-  it as skipped, and the records there count as outside the scanned operands, as
-  for `-x`. `--no-default-excludes` turns off the default excludes only, and
-  `scan --help` lists them (2026-10-17,
-  https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/124)
-
-- the rate a progress display shows covers the items completed over the last 5
-  seconds, or since the line before when stderr is not a terminal, so it falls
-  to 0 while nothing completes, and a burst after a wait no longer reads as a
-  steady rate of over 1,000 files a second; the ETA still comes from the phase's
-  average. Once no item has completed for 10 seconds, the word `stalled` and
-  where the phase waits take the rate's place, as `stalled disk/db`: `disk`,
-  `db`, `out` for stdout or `cpu`, or two of them for a phase that may wait on
-  either, each phase giving its word where it is defined. A line too wide for
-  the terminal loses its bar first, then its rate or those words, so the phase,
-  progress, elapsed time and ETA stay whole. On an 80-column terminal, at counts
-  like those of README's example, the content phase's checks and reads lose
-  those words at most times in minutes, and every other phase keeps them
-  whenever the elapsed time and the ETA are both in minutes. The content phase's
-  last partial batch is now written under a display of its own (2026-10-16,
-  https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/125)
-
-- new subcommand `info` prints the database's details on stdout, one per line as
-  a name, a tab and the value: its path and where it came from, the sizes of the
-  database file and of its `-wal` file when there is one, when the database file
-  was last changed, the schema version, the number of records, how many have
-  head and tail hashes and how many a content hash, and the sizes of all records
-  added up. It opens the database as `report` does, and shows two phases on
-  stderr, `[1/2] open` and `[2/2] count`; the schema version and the counts come
-  from one read-only transaction, the counts from one query (2026-10-16,
-  https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/117)
-
-- `report` shows its work on stderr in two phases, `[1/2] open` and
-  `[2/2] read`, with the progress display `scan` and `trees` use, from the
-  moment it starts until the summary line: `open` says it is opening the
-  database, also while it waits on a busy one; `read` counts the records, then
-  reads them against that count in signature order, which SQLite takes from the
-  `files_signature` index without sorting, so the first record comes at once.
-  `report` forms the duplicate groups itself, holding only those of the size it
-  is reading, and writes them ordered by first path before it reads the next
-  size. stdout and the summary line are unchanged, and SQLite no longer needs a
-  temporary file to sort in (2026-10-16,
-  https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/114)
-
-- `trees` shows its work on stderr in four phases, `[1/4] open`, `[2/4] read`,
-  `[3/4] group` and `[4/4] write`, each with the progress display `scan` uses,
-  from the moment it starts until the summary line: `open` says it is opening
-  the database, also while it waits on a busy one; `read` counts the records,
-  then reads them against that count; `group` counts the directories it groups,
-  and `write` the groups it writes. A display's rate names what its phase
-  counts: files, records, directories or groups. stdout and the summary line are
-  unchanged. When stdout and stderr are the same file, as one terminal is, none
-  of stdout's lines shares a line with the display; when they are not, the
-  display keeps being drawn while stdout waits on a slow reader (2026-10-16,
-  https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/113)
-
 - each `scan` phase's progress display names the phase and its place among the
   five, as `[2/5] walk`, from the moment it starts, with its progress, elapsed
   time and ETA: `load` counts the records first, the walk's total is estimated
@@ -176,12 +37,12 @@
   until the first one is returned. On a terminal a phase with an exact total
   draws its line followed by the library's bar, and any other a spinner followed
   by the line; every display is drawn again several times a second. No line
-  reaches the terminal's last column, however narrow, also after the terminal is
+  reaches the terminal's last column, however narrow: a line too wide leaves out
-  made narrower during a phase: a line too wide leaves out its rate, then its
+  its rate, then its bar, keeping the phase, progress, elapsed time and ETA
-  bar, keeping the phase, progress, elapsed time and ETA whole, and is cut short
+  whole, and is cut short only when those alone do not fit, as below about 70
-  only when those alone do not fit, as below about 70 columns late in a large
+  columns late in a large scan. In plain mode the line is printed every 5
-  scan. In plain mode the line is printed every 5 seconds whether or not an item
+  seconds whether or not an item completed (2026-10-16,
-  completed (2026-10-16, https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/112)
+  https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/112)
 
 - `scan`, `report` and `trees` first print a line on stderr naming the database
   they use, as an absolute path, and whether that path is the default or comes
@@ -201,11 +62,7 @@
   and the build stage installs `git` and `make` itself; a new push cancels the
   workflow's older run on the same branch, and a run stops after 20 minutes;
   `.claude/settings.json` is deleted (2026-10-15,
-  https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/95). Since
+  https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/95)
-  https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/109 the module download in `lint`,
-  `test` and the build stage, and the install of `git` and `make` in the build
-  stage, come before `ARG CACHEBUST`, and Docker keeps them between builds;
-  every step that lints, tests or compiles still runs on every build
 
 - with `-x`, an operand under another operand is walked on its own instead of
   being dropped when a directory from it (from its directory, for a regular
@@ -406,9 +263,9 @@
   a `CHECK_EPOCH` build argument; since
   https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/95 every `docker build` in `script/`
   passes a new `CACHEBUST` value instead, which every stage of the `Dockerfile`
-  declares before every step that lints, tests or compiles. Run as root, the
+  declares first. Run as root, the tests fail
-  tests fail `TestScanHardlinkRunFailsTogether`, because root reads through the
+  `TestScanHardlinkRunFailsTogether`, because root reads through the `chmod(0)`
-  `chmod(0)` the test relies on, so the `test` phase runs them as `nobody`
+  the test relies on, so the `test` phase runs them as `nobody`
 - check the installed golangci-lint version in `script/bootstrap` instead of
   only its presence (2026-08-09, branch `bootstrap-version-check`, closes
   https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/24): the version lives only in

cancel_test.go

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"context"
-	"crypto/sha256"
 	"database/sql"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
@@ -169,8 +168,8 @@ func assertRecordsIntact(t *testing.T, db *sql.DB, before []string) {
 
 // TestSyncScanCancelledMidWalkKeepsRecords is the regression net under
 // the post-walk guard. The scan is cancelled part-way through the
-// walk, so it reaches the guard having walked a genuinely partial tree
+// walk, so it reaches the guard holding a genuinely partial size
-// and holding a still-populated index of records the walk never got to.
+// census and a still-populated index of records the walk never got to.
 // Every one of those records would look vanished to the update phase.
 // The guard is what stops the scan there, and this test is what
 // notices if it stops doing so: deleting the guard, or making it
@@ -197,7 +196,7 @@ func TestSyncScanCancelledMidWalkKeepsRecords(t *testing.T) {
 	base := baselineGoroutines(t)
 
 	st, err := syncScan(newWalkClock(walkCancelAtDone), db,
-		[]string{dir}, walkCancelWorkers, false, walkRules{})
+		[]string{dir}, walkCancelWorkers, false)
 
 	assertWalkGuardAborted(t, st, err)
 	assertRecordsIntact(t, db, before)
@@ -209,10 +208,10 @@ func TestSyncScanCancelledMidWalkKeepsRecords(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 // assertWalkGuardAborted checks that the scan stopped at the post-walk
-// guard: with a walk that reached some files (it really ran) but not
+// guard: with a census that is neither empty (the walk really ran)
-// all of them (it really was cut short), and with no record counted for
+// nor complete (it really was cut short), and with no record counted
-// removal. A removal count means the partial walk was carried past
+// for removal. A removal count means the partial census was carried
-// the guard into the update phase, which is the failure this test
+// past the guard into the update phase, which is the failure this test
 // exists to catch.
 func assertWalkGuardAborted(t *testing.T, st scanStats, err error) {
 	t.Helper()
@@ -223,30 +222,30 @@ func assertWalkGuardAborted(t *testing.T, st scanStats, err error) {
 	}
 
 	if st.unchanged == 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("stats = %+v: the walk reached no file, so it never "+
+		t.Fatalf("stats = %+v: the census is empty, so the walk never "+
 			"ran and the guard was reached for the wrong reason", st)
 	}
 
 	if st.unchanged >= walkCancelFiles {
-		t.Fatalf("stats = %+v: the walk reached the whole tree, so it "+
+		t.Fatalf("stats = %+v: the census covers the whole tree, so the "+
-			"was not cut short", st)
+			"walk was not cut short", st)
 	}
 
 	// The workers drop every directory still queued once the scan is
 	// cancelled, so only the files in the directories already in flight
-	// can still be reached after the fact. A walk beyond that bound
+	// can add to the census after the fact. A census beyond that bound
 	// would mean the cancellation was not observed where it should have
 	// been.
 	limit := walkCancelAtDone + walkCancelInFlightFiles
 	if st.unchanged > limit {
-		t.Errorf("the walk reached %d files, want at most %d: it kept "+
+		t.Errorf("census covers %d files, want at most %d: the walk kept "+
 			"taking directories off the queue after cancellation",
 			st.unchanged, limit)
 	}
 
 	if st.removed != 0 {
 		t.Errorf("stats = %+v: the scan counted records for removal from "+
-			"a partial walk", st)
+			"a partial census", st)
 	}
 }
 
@@ -269,8 +268,7 @@ func TestSyncScanCancelledBeforeLoadIndex(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(t.Context())
 	cancel()
 
-	st, err := syncScan(ctx, db, []string{dir}, walkCancelWorkers, false,
+	st, err := syncScan(ctx, db, []string{dir}, walkCancelWorkers, false)
-		walkRules{})
 	if !errors.Is(err, context.Canceled) {
 		t.Fatalf("syncScan on a cancelled context = %v, want %v",
 			err, context.Canceled)
@@ -303,7 +301,7 @@ func TestSyncScanCancelledMidHashKeepsHashedRecords(t *testing.T) {
 	db := openTestDB(t)
 
 	st, err := syncScan(newWalkClock(hashCancelAtDone), db,
-		[]string{dir}, walkCancelWorkers, false, walkRules{})
+		[]string{dir}, walkCancelWorkers, false)
 	if !errors.Is(err, context.Canceled) {
 		t.Fatalf("syncScan cancelled mid-hash = %v, want %v",
 			err, context.Canceled)
@@ -358,8 +356,7 @@ func TestRunScanInterrupted(t *testing.T) {
 	stderr := captureStderr(t)
 	dir := buildSmokeTree(t)
 
-	err := runScan(t.Context(), []string{dir}, walkCancelWorkers, false,
+	err := runScan(t.Context(), []string{dir}, walkCancelWorkers, false)
-		false)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -383,7 +380,7 @@ func TestRunScanInterrupted(t *testing.T) {
 		defer close(done)
 
 		err = runScan(cancelledContext(t), []string{dir}, walkCancelWorkers,
-			false, false)
+			false)
 	}()
 
 	awaitReturn(t, done, "runScan")
@@ -410,8 +407,7 @@ func TestRunScanInterrupted(t *testing.T) {
 			got, before)
 	}
 
-	err = runScan(t.Context(), []string{dir}, walkCancelWorkers, false,
+	err = runScan(t.Context(), []string{dir}, walkCancelWorkers, false)
-		false)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -437,7 +433,7 @@ func TestRunScanInterruptedMidHash(t *testing.T) {
 	dir := buildWalkCancelTree(t)
 
 	err := runScan(newWalkClock(hashCancelAtDone), []string{dir},
-		walkCancelWorkers, false, false)
+		walkCancelWorkers, false)
 	if !errors.Is(err, errInterrupted) {
 		t.Fatalf("runScan interrupted mid-hash = %v, want %v",
 			err, errInterrupted)
@@ -621,8 +617,7 @@ func TestWalkOneDirStopsWhenCancelled(t *testing.T) {
 	// Unbuffered and unread: on a cancelled scan every send gives up.
 	events := make(chan walkEvent)
 
-	subs := walkOneDir(cancelledContext(t), dirJob{path: dir}, false,
+	subs := walkOneDir(cancelledContext(t), dirJob{path: dir}, false, events)
-		walkRules{}, events)
 	if len(subs) != 0 {
 		t.Errorf("cancelled walkOneDir returned %+v to descend into, "+
 			"want none", subs)
@@ -642,8 +637,7 @@ func TestWalkWorkersDropQueuedDirs(t *testing.T) {
 
 	missing := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "missing")
 
-	jobs, _, events := startWalkWorkers(cancelledContext(t), 2, false,
+	jobs, _, events := startWalkWorkers(cancelledContext(t), 2, false)
-		walkRules{})
 
 	for range 64 {
 		jobs <- dirJob{path: missing}
@@ -674,7 +668,7 @@ func TestWalkWorkerAbandonsSubdirHandoff(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(t.Context())
 	defer cancel()
 
-	jobs, subdirs, events := startWalkWorkers(ctx, 1, false, walkRules{})
+	jobs, subdirs, events := startWalkWorkers(ctx, 1, false)
 
 	// Fill the hand-back channel to its capacity — one slot per worker
 	// — so the worker's own hand-back is certain to block.
@@ -763,9 +757,7 @@ func TestHashWorkerDropsQueuedRuns(t *testing.T) {
 
 	var hashed atomic.Bool
 
-	hash := func(path string, size int64) (
+	hash := func(path string, size int64) (string, string, string, error) {
-		[sha256.Size]byte, [sha256.Size]byte, [sha256.Size]byte, error,
-	) {
 		hashed.Store(true)
 
 		return hashSignature(path, size)
@@ -805,9 +797,7 @@ func TestHashWorkerAbandonsBlockedSend(t *testing.T) {
 
 	// The scan is cancelled while the worker hashes, so the worker has
 	// already passed the check that drops queued runs.
-	hash := func(path string, size int64) (
+	hash := func(path string, size int64) (string, string, string, error) {
-		[sha256.Size]byte, [sha256.Size]byte, [sha256.Size]byte, error,
-	) {
 		cancel()
 
 		return hashSignature(path, size)

db.go

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"context"
-	"crypto/sha256"
 	"database/sql"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
@@ -49,22 +48,21 @@ const lockFilePerm = 0o600
 // createTableSQL is the schema applied to a fresh database. Paths are
 // BLOBs because Unix paths are raw bytes, not guaranteed UTF-8. mtime
 // holds whole Unix seconds and mtime_nsec the nanoseconds within that
-// second. head, tail and content each hold the raw 32 bytes of a
+// second.
-// SHA-256.
 const createTableSQL = `
 CREATE TABLE files (
     path       BLOB PRIMARY KEY,
     size       INTEGER NOT NULL,
     mtime      INTEGER NOT NULL,
     mtime_nsec INTEGER NOT NULL,
-    head       BLOB NOT NULL,
+    head       TEXT NOT NULL,
-    tail       BLOB NOT NULL,
+    tail       TEXT NOT NULL,
-    content    BLOB NOT NULL
+    content    TEXT NOT NULL
 ) WITHOUT ROWID
 `
 
-// createIndexSQL indexes the records by signature, so report can read
+// createIndexSQL indexes the records by signature, so report can have
-// them in signature order without sorting the table.
+// SQLite group them without sorting the whole table.
 const createIndexSQL = `
 CREATE INDEX files_signature ON files (size, head, tail, content)
 `
@@ -81,8 +79,7 @@ ON CONFLICT (path) DO UPDATE SET
     content = excluded.content
 `
 
-// errNoDatabase reports a missing database file for report, trees and
+// errNoDatabase reports a missing database file for report/trees.
-// info.
 var errNoDatabase = errors.New(
 	"no database (run \"sfdupes scan\" first, or set " + databaseEnv + ")")
 
@@ -94,10 +91,6 @@ var errSchemaVersion = errors.New("unsupported database schema version")
 // database.
 var errScanRunning = errors.New("another scan is running")
 
-// errHashSize reports a record whose head, tail or content is not the
-// 32 bytes of a SHA-256.
-var errHashSize = errors.New("hash is not 32 bytes")
-
 // databasePath resolves the database location: SFDUPES_DATABASE when
 // set and non-empty, the compiled-in default otherwise. It returns the
 // path, with the working directory, its symlinks resolved, put in front
@@ -115,8 +108,10 @@ func databasePath() (string, string, error) {
 	}
 
 	// The working directory as the kernel reports it, with no symlink
-	// in it, as README "Database" says. os.Getwd may return PWD
+	// in it. os.Getwd may return PWD instead, which can name it through
-	// instead, which can name it through a symlink.
+	// a symlink; a ".." after that symlink then leads somewhere else
+	// once the path is cleaned, as scan cleans it to create the
+	// database's directory.
 	wd, err := unix.Getwd()
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", "", fmt.Errorf("resolve database path %s: %w", path, err)
@@ -129,24 +124,6 @@ func databasePath() (string, string, error) {
 	return strings.TrimSuffix(wd, "/") + "/" + path, source, nil
 }
 
-// createDatabaseDirectory creates the directory the database at path
-// goes in, and any directory above it, if missing. path is absolute, as
-// databasePath returns it. The directory is path with its last element
-// cut off as text, by filepath.Split. filepath.Dir would clean it,
-// dropping each ".." together with the directory name before it; when
-// that name is a symlink, the cleaned path names another directory than
-// the one the system reaches when it opens path.
-func createDatabaseDirectory(path string) error {
-	dir, _ := filepath.Split(path)
-
-	err := os.MkdirAll(dir, dbDirPerm)
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("create database directory: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	return nil
-}
-
 // scanParams are the connection parameters for scan: read-write, with
 // WAL journaling and a busy timeout, so a report can run while a cron
 // scan is in progress. closeScanDatabase leaves WAL mode again.
@@ -154,9 +131,9 @@ const scanParams = "_pragma=busy_timeout(10000)" +
 	"&_pragma=journal_mode(WAL)" +
 	"&_pragma=synchronous(NORMAL)"
 
-// reportParams are the connection parameters for report, trees and
+// reportParams are the connection parameters for report and trees:
-// info: read-only, with the same busy timeout. They set no journal
+// read-only, with the same busy timeout. They set no journal mode,
-// mode, because setting one is a write.
+// because setting one is a write.
 const reportParams = "mode=ro" +
 	"&_pragma=busy_timeout(10000)" +
 	"&_pragma=query_only(1)"
@@ -201,9 +178,9 @@ func openDB(path, params string) (*sql.DB, error) {
 // that deleted it would let the next scan lock a new file while
 // another still holds the old one.
 func lockScanDatabase(path string) (*os.File, error) {
-	err := createDatabaseDirectory(path)
+	err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(path), dbDirPerm)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("create database directory: %w", err)
 	}
 
 	// Like SQLite, this follows a symlink at path and creates its
@@ -247,9 +224,9 @@ func lockScanDatabase(path string) (*os.File, error) {
 // openScanDatabase opens the database for the scan subcommand, creating
 // the file, its parent directory, and the schema as needed.
 func openScanDatabase(ctx context.Context, path string) (*sql.DB, error) {
-	err := createDatabaseDirectory(path)
+	err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(path), dbDirPerm)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("create database directory: %w", err)
 	}
 
 	db, err := openDB(path, scanParams)
@@ -267,42 +244,6 @@ func openScanDatabase(ctx context.Context, path string) (*sql.DB, error) {
 	return db, nil
 }
 
-// databaseFiles returns, by device and inode, the files of the database
-// at path that the scan keeps open: the database file, its -wal and
-// -shm files and its .lock file, each named from the database's path
-// with symlinks resolved, as SQLite and lockScanDatabase name them. The
-// scan calls it once the database and the lock file are open, so that
-// its walk passes over them however it reaches them, through a
-// symlinked directory included. A file that does not exist then is left
-// out, since no walk can reach it. There is no -journal file while the
-// database is in WAL mode.
-func databaseFiles(path string) ([]fileRec, error) {
-	resolved, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(path)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("resolve database path: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	var files []fileRec
-
-	for _, p := range []string{
-		resolved, resolved + "-wal", resolved + "-shm", resolved + ".lock",
-	} {
-		fi, err := os.Lstat(p)
-		if errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
-			continue
-		}
-
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("database: %w", err)
-		}
-
-		dev, ino := inodeOfInfo(fi)
-		files = append(files, fileRec{path: p, dev: dev, ino: ino})
-	}
-
-	return files, nil
-}
-
 // closeScanDatabase switches the database at path from WAL back to
 // rollback-journal mode and closes it. Out of WAL mode the database
 // file alone holds the whole database, so a reader needs no -wal or
@@ -321,9 +262,9 @@ func closeScanDatabase(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB, path string) {
 	_ = db.Close()
 }
 
-// openReportDatabase opens an existing database for the report, trees
+// openReportDatabase opens an existing database for the report and
-// and info subcommands. A missing database file is an error directing
+// trees subcommands. A missing database file is an error directing the
-// the user to run scan first; the schema version must match exactly.
+// user to run scan first; the schema version must match exactly.
 func openReportDatabase(ctx context.Context,
 	path string,
 ) (*sql.DB, error) {
@@ -462,32 +403,10 @@ func userVersion(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB) (int, error) {
 	return v, nil
 }
 
-// loadFileRows gives total the number of records, then streams every
+// loadFileRows streams every record to fn in path order: byte order,
-// record to fn in path order: byte order, which is the order of the
+// which is the order of the primary key, so SQLite does not sort.
-// primary key, so SQLite does not sort. The count and the records are
+func loadFileRows(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB, fn func(r scanRec)) error {
-// read in one transaction, so they agree while a scan is committing.
+	rows, err := db.QueryContext(ctx,
-func loadFileRows(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB, total func(n int64),
-	fn func(r scanRec),
-) error {
-	// Everything goes through tx: db has one connection, so a query on
-	// db would wait for tx forever.
-	tx, err := db.BeginTx(ctx, &sql.TxOptions{ReadOnly: true})
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("read records: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	defer func() { _ = tx.Rollback() }()
-
-	var n int64
-
-	err = tx.QueryRowContext(ctx, "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM files").Scan(&n)
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("count records: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	total(n)
-
-	rows, err := tx.QueryContext(ctx,
 		"SELECT path, size, mtime, mtime_nsec, head, tail, content "+
 			"FROM files ORDER BY path")
 	if err != nil {
@@ -498,24 +417,19 @@ func loadFileRows(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB, total func(n int64),
 
 	for rows.Next() {
 		var (
-			path, head, tail, content []byte
+			path      []byte
-			sec, nsec                 int64
+			sec, nsec int64
-			r                         scanRec
+			r         scanRec
 		)
 
-		err = rows.Scan(&path, &r.size, &sec, &nsec, &head, &tail, &content)
+		err = rows.Scan(&path, &r.size, &sec, &nsec, &r.head, &r.tail,
+			&r.content)
 		if err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("read record: %w", err)
 		}
 
 		r.path = string(path)
 		r.mtime = time.Unix(sec, nsec)
-
-		err = r.setHashes(head, tail, content)
-		if err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("read record %s: %w", escapePath(r.path), err)
-		}
-
 		fn(r)
 	}
 
@@ -527,95 +441,77 @@ func loadFileRows(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB, total func(n int64),
 	return nil
 }
 
-// signatureRowsSQL selects every record's signature and path in
+// dupeRowsSQL selects every record in a duplicate group, with the
-// signature order, largest size first. That is the order of the
+// group's first path. A group is the records with a content hash that
-// files_signature index read backwards, so SQLite reads the index alone
+// share a size, head, tail, and content, when there are two or more of
-// and returns the first row at once, with nothing to sort.
+// them. The rows come in report order: groups by size descending, then
-const signatureRowsSQL = `
+// by first path, and each group's paths ascending.
-SELECT size, head, tail, content, path
+const dupeRowsSQL = `
-FROM files
+SELECT g.first, f.path, f.size
-ORDER BY size DESC, head DESC, tail DESC, content DESC
+FROM files AS f
+JOIN (
+    SELECT size, head, tail, content, MIN(path) AS first
+    FROM files
+    WHERE content <> ''
+    GROUP BY size, head, tail, content
+    HAVING COUNT(*) > 1
+) AS g USING (size, head, tail, content)
+ORDER BY f.size DESC, g.first, f.path
 `
 
-// loadSignatureRows gives total the number of records, then streams
+// loadDupeRows streams the rows of dupeRowsSQL to fn and returns the
-// every record's signature and path to fn, without its mtime, in the
+// number of records in the database. The count and the rows are read
-// order of signatureRowsSQL. The count and the records are read in one
+// in one transaction, so they agree while a scan is committing. An
-// transaction, so they agree while a scan is committing. An error from
+// error from fn stops the reading and is returned as it is.
-// fn stops the reading and is returned as it is.
+func loadDupeRows(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB,
-func loadSignatureRows(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB,
+	fn func(first, path string, size int64) error,
-	total func(n int64), fn func(r scanRec) error,
+) (int, error) {
-) error {
 	// Everything goes through tx: the report connection is the only
 	// one, so a query on db would wait for tx forever.
 	tx, err := db.BeginTx(ctx, &sql.TxOptions{ReadOnly: true})
 	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("read records: %w", err)
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("read records: %w", err)
 	}
 
 	defer func() { _ = tx.Rollback() }()
 
-	var n int64
+	var records int
 
-	err = tx.QueryRowContext(ctx, "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM files").Scan(&n)
+	err = tx.QueryRowContext(ctx, "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM files").Scan(&records)
 	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("count records: %w", err)
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("read records: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	total(n)
+	rows, err := tx.QueryContext(ctx, dupeRowsSQL)
-
-	rows, err := tx.QueryContext(ctx, signatureRowsSQL)
 	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("read records: %w", err)
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("read records: %w", err)
 	}
 
 	defer func() { _ = rows.Close() }()
 
 	for rows.Next() {
 		var (
-			path, head, tail, content []byte
+			first, path []byte
-			r                         scanRec
+			size        int64
 		)
 
-		err = rows.Scan(&r.size, &head, &tail, &content, &path)
+		err = rows.Scan(&first, &path, &size)
 		if err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("read record: %w", err)
+			return 0, fmt.Errorf("read record: %w", err)
 		}
 
-		r.path = string(path)
+		err = fn(string(first), string(path), size)
-
-		err = r.setHashes(head, tail, content)
 		if err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("read record %s: %w", escapePath(r.path), err)
+			return 0, err
-		}
-
-		err = fn(r)
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
 		}
 	}
 
 	err = rows.Err()
 	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("read records: %w", err)
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("read records: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	return nil
+	return records, nil
-}
-
-// setHashes sets r's head, tail and content to the values read from
-// those columns. Each must be the raw 32 bytes of a SHA-256.
-func (r *scanRec) setHashes(head, tail, content []byte) error {
-	for _, b := range [][]byte{head, tail, content} {
-		if len(b) != sha256.Size {
-			return fmt.Errorf("%w: found %d bytes", errHashSize, len(b))
-		}
-	}
-
-	r.head = [sha256.Size]byte(head)
-	r.tail = [sha256.Size]byte(tail)
-	r.content = [sha256.Size]byte(content)
-
-	return nil
 }
 
 // countRecords returns the number of records in the database.
@@ -630,63 +526,15 @@ func countRecords(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB) (int64, error) {
 	return n, nil
 }
 
-// databaseCountsSQL counts the records and adds up their sizes, in one
+// loadFileMeta streams every record's path, size, mtime, and whether
-// pass over the table. A SUM over no rows is NULL, so on an empty table
+// it carries hashes to fn. Scan change detection needs no hash
-// the SUM falls back to 0.
+// values, and skipping the hash columns keeps the scan's in-memory
-const databaseCountsSQL = `
+// index small on multi-million-file databases.
-SELECT COUNT(*), COALESCE(SUM(size), 0)
-FROM files
-`
-
-// databaseCounts is what info reads from the database: its schema
-// version and the counts of databaseCountsSQL.
-type databaseCounts struct {
-	schemaVersion int
-	records       int64 // every record
-	size          int64 // the sizes of all records added up
-}
-
-// readDatabaseCounts reads the schema version, then the counts of
-// databaseCountsSQL, in one read-only transaction, so both describe the
-// database at one moment while a scan is committing.
-func readDatabaseCounts(ctx context.Context,
-	db *sql.DB,
-) (databaseCounts, error) {
-	var c databaseCounts
-
-	// Everything goes through tx: the report connection is the only
-	// one, so a query on db would wait for tx forever.
-	tx, err := db.BeginTx(ctx, &sql.TxOptions{ReadOnly: true})
-	if err != nil {
-		return c, fmt.Errorf("count records: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	defer func() { _ = tx.Rollback() }()
-
-	err = tx.QueryRowContext(ctx, "PRAGMA user_version").
-		Scan(&c.schemaVersion)
-	if err != nil {
-		return c, fmt.Errorf("read schema version: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	err = tx.QueryRowContext(ctx, databaseCountsSQL).
-		Scan(&c.records, &c.size)
-	if err != nil {
-		return c, fmt.Errorf("count records: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	return c, nil
-}
-
-// loadFileMeta streams every record's path, size and mtime to fn. Scan
-// change detection needs no hash values, and skipping the hash columns
-// keeps the scan's in-memory index small on multi-million-file
-// databases.
 func loadFileMeta(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB,
-	fn func(path string, size int64, mtime time.Time),
+	fn func(path string, size int64, mtime time.Time, hashed bool),
 ) error {
 	rows, err := db.QueryContext(ctx,
-		"SELECT path, size, mtime, mtime_nsec FROM files")
+		"SELECT path, size, mtime, mtime_nsec, head <> '' FROM files")
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("read records: %w", err)
 	}
@@ -697,14 +545,94 @@ func loadFileMeta(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB,
 		var (
 			path            []byte
 			size, sec, nsec int64
+			hashed          int64
 		)
 
-		err = rows.Scan(&path, &size, &sec, &nsec)
+		err = rows.Scan(&path, &size, &sec, &nsec, &hashed)
 		if err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("read record: %w", err)
 		}
 
-		fn(string(path), size, time.Unix(sec, nsec))
+		fn(string(path), size, time.Unix(sec, nsec), hashed != 0)
+	}
+
+	err = rows.Err()
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("read records: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// contentGroupsSQL selects each group (the records sharing a size,
+// head, and tail) of records of at least headTailMin bytes that has more
+// than one record and at least one record without a content hash, with
+// the number of its records.
+const contentGroupsSQL = `
+SELECT size, head, tail, COUNT(*) AS records
+FROM files
+WHERE size >= ? AND head <> ''
+GROUP BY size, head, tail
+HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 AND SUM(content = '') > 0
+`
+
+// contentCandidatesSQL selects every record of the groups
+// contentGroupsSQL selects, with whether each record has a content
+// hash. SQLite does the grouping, so no other record's hashes are
+// loaded into memory; the rows come ordered by size, head, and tail, so
+// each group's rows arrive together.
+const contentCandidatesSQL = `
+SELECT f.path, f.size, f.mtime, f.mtime_nsec, f.head, f.tail, f.content <> ''
+FROM files AS f
+JOIN (` + contentGroupsSQL + `) AS g USING (size, head, tail)
+ORDER BY size, head, tail
+`
+
+// countContentCandidates returns the number of rows of
+// contentCandidatesSQL, adding up the records of the groups
+// contentGroupsSQL selects, so it neither joins nor sorts.
+func countContentCandidates(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB) (int64, error) {
+	var n int64
+
+	err := db.QueryRowContext(ctx,
+		"SELECT COALESCE(SUM(records), 0) FROM ("+contentGroupsSQL+")",
+		headTailMin).Scan(&n)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("count content candidates: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	return n, nil
+}
+
+// loadContentCandidates streams the rows of contentCandidatesSQL to fn:
+// each record, without its content hash, and whether it has one.
+func loadContentCandidates(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB,
+	fn func(r scanRec, hashed bool),
+) error {
+	rows, err := db.QueryContext(ctx, contentCandidatesSQL, headTailMin)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("read records: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	defer func() { _ = rows.Close() }()
+
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var (
+			path      []byte
+			sec, nsec int64
+			r         scanRec
+			hashed    int64
+		)
+
+		err = rows.Scan(&path, &r.size, &sec, &nsec, &r.head, &r.tail,
+			&hashed)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("read record: %w", err)
+		}
+
+		r.path = string(path)
+		r.mtime = time.Unix(sec, nsec)
+		fn(r, hashed != 0)
 	}
 
 	err = rows.Err()
@@ -788,8 +716,7 @@ func execUpserts(ctx context.Context, tx *sql.Tx, upserts []scanRec,
 
 	for _, r := range upserts {
 		_, err = st.ExecContext(ctx, []byte(r.path), r.size,
-			r.mtime.Unix(), r.mtime.Nanosecond(),
+			r.mtime.Unix(), r.mtime.Nanosecond(), r.head, r.tail, r.content)
-			r.head[:], r.tail[:], r.content[:])
 		if err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("upsert %s: %w", r.path, err)
 		}

db_test.go

@@ -2,11 +2,9 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"context"
-	"crypto/sha256"
 	"database/sql"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
-	"io/fs"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"slices"
@@ -120,116 +118,6 @@ func TestOpenScanDatabaseCreates(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// TestScanCreatesDatabaseDirectoryAfterSymlink has a database path go
-// through a symlink to a directory, then "..", to a missing directory.
-// With srv/link a symlink to data/x, srv/link/../new/db.sqlite leads to
-// data/new/db.sqlite. lockScanDatabase and openScanDatabase, the two
-// places scan creates the database's directory, must each create the
-// database there, and nothing at srv/new, where the path leads once
-// cleaned as text.
-func TestScanCreatesDatabaseDirectoryAfterSymlink(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	creates := map[string]func(ctx context.Context, path string) error{
-		"lockScanDatabase": func(_ context.Context, path string) error {
-			lock, err := lockScanDatabase(path)
-			if err == nil {
-				_ = lock.Close()
-			}
-
-			return err
-		},
-		"openScanDatabase": func(ctx context.Context, path string) error {
-			db, err := openScanDatabase(ctx, path)
-			if err == nil {
-				_ = db.Close()
-			}
-
-			return err
-		},
-	}
-
-	for name, create := range creates {
-		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			t.Parallel()
-
-			dir, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(t.TempDir())
-			if err != nil {
-				t.Fatal(err)
-			}
-
-			err = os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(dir, "data", "x"), 0o750)
-			if err != nil {
-				t.Fatal(err)
-			}
-
-			err = os.Mkdir(filepath.Join(dir, "srv"), 0o750)
-			if err != nil {
-				t.Fatal(err)
-			}
-
-			err = os.Symlink(filepath.Join(dir, "data", "x"),
-				filepath.Join(dir, "srv", "link"))
-			if err != nil {
-				t.Fatal(err)
-			}
-
-			err = create(t.Context(), dir+"/srv/link/../new/db.sqlite")
-			if err != nil {
-				t.Fatalf("%s: %v", name, err)
-			}
-
-			_, err = os.Stat(filepath.Join(dir, "data", "new", "db.sqlite"))
-			if err != nil {
-				t.Errorf("database the path leads to: %v", err)
-			}
-
-			_, err = os.Lstat(filepath.Join(dir, "srv", "new"))
-			if !errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
-				t.Errorf("srv/new: stat error %v, want it missing", err)
-			}
-		})
-	}
-}
-
-// TestDatabaseFiles opens a database through a symlink to its file:
-// databaseFiles finds the database file and its -wal and -shm files
-// beside the symlink's target, where SQLite keeps them, and leaves out
-// the .lock file, which only a scan creates.
-func TestDatabaseFiles(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	path := testDBPath(t)
-	link := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "link.sqlite")
-
-	err := os.Symlink(path, link)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	db, err := openScanDatabase(t.Context(), link)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	defer func() { _ = db.Close() }()
-
-	files, err := databaseFiles(link)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	got := make([]string, 0, len(files))
-	for _, f := range files {
-		got = append(got, f.path)
-	}
-
-	want := []string{path, path + "-wal", path + "-shm"}
-	if !slices.Equal(got, want) {
-		t.Errorf("databaseFiles(%s) = %q, want %q", link, got, want)
-	}
-}
-
 func TestOpenDatabaseUnversionedForeign(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
@@ -396,189 +284,12 @@ func TestCloseScanDatabaseWhileReportOpen(t *testing.T) {
 
 	defer func() { _ = reportDB.Close() }()
 
-	err = loadFileRows(t.Context(), reportDB, func(int64) {},
+	err = loadFileRows(t.Context(), reportDB, func(scanRec) {})
-		func(scanRec) {})
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("loadFileRows: %v", err)
 	}
 }
 
-// TestLoadRowsCountAgreeDuringScan has a scan commit records after
-// loadFileRows, as trees calls it, or loadSignatureRows, as report
-// calls it, has counted the records and before it reads them, as when
-// trees or report runs during a scan: each must read exactly as many
-// records as it counted.
-func TestLoadRowsCountAgreeDuringScan(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	loads := map[string]func(context.Context, *sql.DB, func(int64),
-		func(scanRec)) error{
-		"loadFileRows": loadFileRows,
-		"loadSignatureRows": func(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB,
-			total func(int64), fn func(scanRec),
-		) error {
-			return loadSignatureRows(ctx, db, total, func(r scanRec) error {
-				fn(r)
-
-				return nil
-			})
-		},
-	}
-
-	for name, load := range loads {
-		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			t.Parallel()
-
-			path := testDBPath(t)
-
-			scanDB, err := openScanDatabase(t.Context(), path)
-			if err != nil {
-				t.Fatal(err)
-			}
-
-			defer func() { _ = scanDB.Close() }()
-
-			recs := smokeTreeRecs()
-
-			err = applyChanges(t.Context(), scanDB, recs[:3], nil, nil)
-			if err != nil {
-				t.Fatal(err)
-			}
-
-			reportDB, err := openReportDatabase(t.Context(), path)
-			if err != nil {
-				t.Fatal(err)
-			}
-
-			defer func() { _ = reportDB.Close() }()
-
-			var counted, read int64
-
-			err = load(t.Context(), reportDB, func(n int64) {
-				counted = n
-
-				err := applyChanges(t.Context(), scanDB, recs[3:], nil, nil)
-				if err != nil {
-					t.Error(err)
-				}
-			}, func(scanRec) { read++ })
-			if err != nil {
-				t.Fatal(err)
-			}
-
-			if counted != 3 || read != counted {
-				t.Errorf("counted %d records and read %d, want 3 and 3",
-					counted, read)
-			}
-		})
-	}
-}
-
-// TestLoadRowsRefuseWrongSizeHash stores a record whose head, tail or
-// content is not the 32 bytes of a SHA-256: either one byte, or the 64
-// bytes of a SHA-256 written as hex text. loadFileRows and
-// loadSignatureRows must each fail on it with an error naming its path.
-func TestLoadRowsRefuseWrongSizeHash(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	hexText := strings.Repeat("ab", sha256.Size)
-
-	cases := []struct {
-		name   string
-		update string
-		value  any
-	}{
-		{"one-byte head", "UPDATE files SET head = ?", []byte{0}},
-		{"hex-text head", "UPDATE files SET head = ?", hexText},
-		{"one-byte tail", "UPDATE files SET tail = ?", []byte{0}},
-		{"hex-text tail", "UPDATE files SET tail = ?", hexText},
-		{"one-byte content", "UPDATE files SET content = ?", []byte{0}},
-		{"hex-text content", "UPDATE files SET content = ?", hexText},
-	}
-	for _, c := range cases {
-		t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			t.Parallel()
-
-			db := openTestDB(t)
-
-			err := applyChanges(t.Context(), db,
-				[]scanRec{{path: "/a/f"}}, nil, nil)
-			if err != nil {
-				t.Fatal(err)
-			}
-
-			_, err = db.ExecContext(t.Context(), c.update, c.value)
-			if err != nil {
-				t.Fatal(err)
-			}
-
-			loads := map[string]func() error{
-				"loadFileRows": func() error {
-					return loadFileRows(t.Context(), db, func(int64) {},
-						func(scanRec) {})
-				},
-				"loadSignatureRows": func() error {
-					return loadSignatureRows(t.Context(), db, func(int64) {},
-						func(scanRec) error { return nil })
-				},
-			}
-
-			for name, load := range loads {
-				err := load()
-				if !errors.Is(err, errHashSize) ||
-					!strings.Contains(err.Error(), "/a/f") {
-					t.Errorf("%s: err = %v, want %v naming /a/f",
-						name, err, errHashSize)
-				}
-			}
-		})
-	}
-}
-
-// TestSignatureRowsNeedNoSort checks that SQLite reads signatureRowsSQL
-// from the files_signature index alone, with nothing to sort: the
-// first record comes at once, so report's read phase counts each
-// record as it comes rather than waiting on SQLite for all of them.
-func TestSignatureRowsNeedNoSort(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	db := openTestDB(t)
-
-	rows, err := db.QueryContext(t.Context(),
-		"EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN "+signatureRowsSQL)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	defer func() { _ = rows.Close() }()
-
-	var plan []string
-
-	for rows.Next() {
-		var (
-			id, parent, unused int
-			detail             string
-		)
-
-		err = rows.Scan(&id, &parent, &unused, &detail)
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-
-		plan = append(plan, detail)
-	}
-
-	err = rows.Err()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	want := []string{"SCAN files USING COVERING INDEX files_signature"}
-	if !slices.Equal(plan, want) {
-		t.Errorf("query plan = %q, want %q", plan, want)
-	}
-}
-
 func TestApplyChangesRoundTrip(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
@@ -589,13 +300,12 @@ func TestApplyChangesRoundTrip(t *testing.T) {
 	// written.
 	recs := []scanRec{
 		{
-			size: 2, mtime: time.Unix(20, 999_999_999), head: testHash("h2"),
+			size: 2, mtime: time.Unix(20, 999_999_999), head: "h2", tail: "t2",
-			tail: testHash("t2"), content: testHash("c2"),
+			content: "c2", path: "/a/tab\tnew\nline",
-			path: "/a/tab\tnew\nline",
 		},
 		{
-			size: 1, mtime: time.Unix(10, 0), head: testHash("h1"),
+			size: 1, mtime: time.Unix(10, 0), head: "h1", tail: "t1",
-			tail: testHash("t1"), content: testHash("c1"), path: "/a/x",
+			content: "c1", path: "/a/x",
 		},
 	}
 
@@ -616,8 +326,8 @@ func TestApplyChangesRoundTrip(t *testing.T) {
 	// An upsert for an existing path updates in place; a delete
 	// removes exactly its path.
 	upd := scanRec{
-		size: 3, mtime: time.Unix(30, 0), head: testHash("h3"),
+		size: 3, mtime: time.Unix(30, 0), head: "h3", tail: "t3", content: "c3",
-		tail: testHash("t3"), content: testHash("c3"), path: "/a/x",
+		path: "/a/x",
 	}
 
 	err = applyChanges(t.Context(), db, []scanRec{upd},
@@ -644,8 +354,8 @@ func TestApplyChangesBatching(t *testing.T) {
 	recs := make([]scanRec, 0, n)
 	for i := range n {
 		recs = append(recs, scanRec{
-			size: int64(i), mtime: time.Unix(1, 0), head: testHash("h"),
+			size: int64(i), mtime: time.Unix(1, 0), head: "h", tail: "t",
-			tail: testHash("t"), path: fmt.Sprintf("/batch/%07d", i),
+			path: fmt.Sprintf("/batch/%07d", i),
 		})
 	}
 
@@ -675,3 +385,62 @@ func TestApplyChangesBatching(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("records = %d, want 0", len(got))
 	}
 }
+
+// TestCountContentCandidates checks that countContentCandidates counts
+// the records the content phase's search returns: those of each group
+// of two or more records of headTailMin or more with a head, where at
+// least one has no content hash.
+func TestCountContentCandidates(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	db := openTestDB(t)
+
+	// Each group's records: size, head, and content, one per record.
+	groups := []struct {
+		size     int64
+		head     string
+		contents []string
+	}{
+		{headTailMin, "h", []string{"", "c", "c"}}, // returned
+		{headTailMin + 1, "h", []string{"", ""}},   // returned
+		{headTailMin + 2, "h", []string{"c", "c"}}, // all hashed
+		{headTailMin + 3, "h", []string{""}},       // one record
+		{headTailMin - 1, "h", []string{"", ""}},   // too small
+		{headTailMin + 4, "", []string{"", ""}},    // no head
+	}
+
+	var recs []scanRec
+
+	for _, g := range groups {
+		for _, content := range g.contents {
+			recs = append(recs, scanRec{
+				size: g.size, mtime: time.Unix(1, 0), head: g.head,
+				tail: "t", content: content,
+				path: fmt.Sprintf("/r/%d", len(recs)),
+			})
+		}
+	}
+
+	err := applyChanges(t.Context(), db, recs, nil, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("applyChanges: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	got, err := countContentCandidates(t.Context(), db)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("countContentCandidates: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	var returned int64
+
+	err = loadContentCandidates(t.Context(), db,
+		func(scanRec, bool) { returned++ })
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("loadContentCandidates: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if got != 5 || returned != 5 {
+		t.Errorf("count = %d, records returned = %d, want 5 and 5",
+			got, returned)
+	}
+}

exclude.go

@@ -1,195 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-// This file holds two rules for the walk (README "Rules for the walk"):
-// the default excludes, the paths a scan's walk does not enter below an
-// operand unless scan is given --no-default-excludes, and the
-// filesystems that are not persistent, on which the scan never records
-// or reads anything.
-
-import (
-	"bufio"
-	"errors"
-	"fmt"
-	"io"
-	"io/fs"
-	"path/filepath"
-	"slices"
-	"strings"
-
-	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
-)
-
-// The systems that have default excludes, as runtime.GOOS names them.
-const (
-	goosLinux   = "linux"
-	goosDarwin  = "darwin"
-	goosWindows = "windows"
-)
-
-// The fields of a line of mountInfoPath that readMountInfo reads,
-// counted from 0 (see proc(5)): the device ID, as major:minor, is the
-// third field, and after the sixth come optional fields, then a field
-// holding "-", then the filesystem type.
-const (
-	deviceField         = 2
-	optionalFieldsStart = 6
-)
-
-// typesPerHelpLine is how many filesystem types the scan command's help
-// lists on each line.
-const typesPerHelpLine = 6
-
-// errMountInfoLine reports a line of mountInfoPath without the fields
-// readMountInfo reads.
-var errMountInfoLine = errors.New("unexpected line")
-
-// walkRules holds the rules for the walk that a scan sets up as it
-// starts. excludes are the default excludes, or none with
-// --no-default-excludes. nonPersistent maps the device ID of every
-// mounted filesystem that is not persistent to its type; the scan
-// records and reads nothing on one of those, whatever the flags.
-// databaseFiles are the scan's own database files, which the walk
-// passes over (see databaseFiles in db.go).
-type walkRules struct {
-	excludes      []string
-	nonPersistent map[uint64]string
-	databaseFiles []fileRec
-}
-
-// defaultExcludes returns the default excludes of the system goos
-// names, as runtime.GOOS does: a fixed list on Linux, macOS and
-// Windows, and none on any other system.
-func defaultExcludes(goos string) []string {
-	switch goos {
-	case goosLinux:
-		return []string{"/proc", "/sys", "/dev", "/run", "/tmp", "/var/tmp"}
-	case goosDarwin:
-		// A walk of / reaches everything in /System/Volumes/Data through
-		// the firmlinks, so walking it as well would record each of
-		// those files twice.
-		return []string{
-			"/dev", "/private/tmp", "/private/var/tmp", "/private/var/vm",
-			"/System/Volumes/VM", "/System/Volumes/Data",
-		}
-	case goosWindows:
-		// Relative to the root of the drive an operand lies on. The
-		// first three are the page, swap and hibernation files.
-		return []string{
-			"pagefile.sys", "swapfile.sys", "hiberfil.sys",
-			"System Volume Information", "$Recycle.Bin", `Windows\Temp`,
-			`Users\*\AppData\Local\Temp`,
-		}
-	default:
-		return nil
-	}
-}
-
-// isDefaultExclude reports whether path is one of excludes, in which a
-// * matches one path component.
-func isDefaultExclude(path string, excludes []string) bool {
-	for _, pattern := range excludes {
-		// The patterns are fixed, so none is malformed.
-		if ok, _ := filepath.Match(pattern, path); ok {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-
-	return false
-}
-
-// nonPersistentFilesystemTypes returns the filesystem types that are
-// not persistent: filesystems that the kernel makes up or that are kept
-// in memory. devfs is the macOS filesystem of /dev; the others are
-// Linux names.
-func nonPersistentFilesystemTypes() []string {
-	return []string{
-		"proc", "sysfs", "devtmpfs", "devpts", "tmpfs", "ramfs",
-		"cgroup", "cgroup2", "debugfs", "tracefs", "securityfs", "pstore",
-		"bpf", "configfs", "fusectl", "mqueue", "hugetlbfs", "efivarfs",
-		"binfmt_misc", "autofs", "nsfs", "rpc_pipefs", "selinuxfs", "devfs",
-	}
-}
-
-// nonPersistentLine returns the line the scan prints for path when fi,
-// its lstat, puts it on a filesystem in rules.nonPersistent, and ""
-// when it is on any other.
-func (rules walkRules) nonPersistentLine(path string, fi fs.FileInfo) string {
-	dev, ok := deviceOfInfo(fi)
-	if !ok {
-		return ""
-	}
-
-	fsType, found := rules.nonPersistent[dev]
-	if !found {
-		return ""
-	}
-
-	return fmt.Sprintf("scan: skipped %s (%s, not a persistent filesystem)",
-		path, fsType)
-}
-
-// readMountInfo reads mountinfo, laid out as mountInfoPath is, and
-// returns the device ID of every mounted filesystem that is not
-// persistent, with its type. The device ID is the one each line gives,
-// not that of the file now at its mount point, so a mount that a later
-// mount hides never adds the device of another filesystem.
-func readMountInfo(mountinfo io.Reader) (map[uint64]string, error) {
-	types := nonPersistentFilesystemTypes()
-	devices := make(map[uint64]string)
-	lines := bufio.NewScanner(mountinfo)
-
-	for lines.Scan() {
-		fields := strings.Fields(lines.Text())
-
-		sep := slices.Index(fields, "-")
-		if sep < optionalFieldsStart || sep+1 >= len(fields) {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: %q", errMountInfoLine, lines.Text())
-		}
-
-		var major, minor uint32
-
-		_, err := fmt.Sscanf(fields[deviceField], "%d:%d", &major, &minor)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: %q", errMountInfoLine, lines.Text())
-		}
-
-		fsType := fields[sep+1]
-		if slices.Contains(types, fsType) {
-			devices[unix.Mkdev(major, minor)] = fsType
-		}
-	}
-
-	return devices, lines.Err()
-}
-
-// defaultExcludesHelp describes, for the scan command's help, the
-// default excludes of the system goos names and, where the scan lists
-// the mounted filesystems, the types it never records anything on.
-func defaultExcludesHelp(goos string) string {
-	var help strings.Builder
-
-	dirs := defaultExcludes(goos)
-	if len(dirs) == 0 {
-		help.WriteString("This system has no default excludes.\n")
-	} else {
-		help.WriteString("Below an operand, the walk does not enter these " +
-			"default excludes, unless\n--no-default-excludes is given:\n\n")
-
-		for _, dir := range dirs {
-			fmt.Fprintf(&help, "  %s\n", dir)
-		}
-	}
-
-	if goos == goosLinux || goos == goosDarwin {
-		help.WriteString("\nWith or without --no-default-excludes, the scan " +
-			"records nothing on a\nfilesystem that is not persistent, " +
-			"one of these types:\n\n")
-
-		types := nonPersistentFilesystemTypes()
-		for line := range slices.Chunk(types, typesPerHelpLine) {
-			fmt.Fprintf(&help, "  %s\n", strings.Join(line, ", "))
-		}
-	}
-
-	return help.String()
-}

exclude_darwin.go

@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-//go:build darwin
-
-package main
-
-import (
-	"slices"
-
-	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
-)
-
-// nonPersistentFilesystems returns the device ID of every mounted
-// filesystem that is not persistent, with its type, from the system's
-// list of mounted filesystems. The device ID is read with lstat on the
-// mount point. Where one filesystem is mounted over another on the same
-// mount point, the later one in the list counts. A mount point that
-// lstat cannot reach is left out.
-func nonPersistentFilesystems() (map[uint64]string, error) {
-	// The first call counts the filesystems, the second lists them.
-	n, err := unix.Getfsstat(nil, unix.MNT_NOWAIT)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	list := make([]unix.Statfs_t, n)
-
-	n, err = unix.Getfsstat(list, unix.MNT_NOWAIT)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	mounts := make(map[string]string, n)
-
-	for _, st := range list[:n] {
-		mounts[unix.ByteSliceToString(st.Mntonname[:])] =
-			unix.ByteSliceToString(st.Fstypename[:])
-	}
-
-	types := nonPersistentFilesystemTypes()
-	devices := make(map[uint64]string)
-
-	for mountPoint, fsType := range mounts {
-		if !slices.Contains(types, fsType) {
-			continue
-		}
-
-		if dev, ok := deviceOfPath(mountPoint); ok {
-			devices[dev] = fsType
-		}
-	}
-
-	return devices, nil
-}

exclude_other.go

@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-//go:build !darwin
-
-package main
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-	"os"
-	"runtime"
-)
-
-// mountInfoPath is the file in which Linux lists the mounts the reading
-// process sees.
-const mountInfoPath = "/proc/self/mountinfo"
-
-// nonPersistentFilesystems returns the device ID of every mounted
-// filesystem that is not persistent, with its type: on Linux read from
-// mountInfoPath (see readMountInfo), and on any other system none.
-func nonPersistentFilesystems() (map[uint64]string, error) {
-	if runtime.GOOS != goosLinux {
-		return map[uint64]string{}, nil
-	}
-
-	f, err := os.Open(mountInfoPath)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	defer func() { _ = f.Close() }()
-
-	devices, err := readMountInfo(f)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("read %s: %w", mountInfoPath, err)
-	}
-
-	return devices, nil
-}

exclude_test.go

@@ -1,515 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"bytes"
-	"errors"
-	"maps"
-	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
-	"runtime"
-	"slices"
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-
-	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
-)
-
-func TestDefaultExcludes(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	// README "Rules for the walk": the Linux and macOS lists, and none
-	// on any other system. The Windows list exists in the code only: the
-	// binary does not build for Windows, so the README leaves it out.
-	cases := map[string][]string{
-		goosLinux: {"/proc", "/sys", "/dev", "/run", "/tmp", "/var/tmp"},
-		goosDarwin: {
-			"/dev", "/private/tmp", "/private/var/tmp", "/private/var/vm",
-			"/System/Volumes/VM", "/System/Volumes/Data",
-		},
-		goosWindows: {
-			"pagefile.sys", "swapfile.sys", "hiberfil.sys",
-			"System Volume Information", "$Recycle.Bin", `Windows\Temp`,
-			`Users\*\AppData\Local\Temp`,
-		},
-		"freebsd": nil,
-	}
-
-	for goos, want := range cases {
-		if got := defaultExcludes(goos); !slices.Equal(got, want) {
-			t.Errorf("defaultExcludes(%q) = %q, want %q", goos, got, want)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestIsDefaultExclude(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	// A * matches one path component, no more and no fewer.
-	excludes := []string{"/scratch", "/home/*/cache"}
-
-	cases := map[string]bool{
-		"/scratch":        true,
-		"/scratch/x":      false,
-		"/home/u/cache":   true,
-		"/home/u/v/cache": false,
-		"/home/cache":     false,
-	}
-
-	for path, want := range cases {
-		if got := isDefaultExclude(path, excludes); got != want {
-			t.Errorf("isDefaultExclude(%q) = %v, want %v", path, got, want)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestReadMountInfo(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	// The second-to-last line has no optional fields. The tmpfs on
-	// /data/a/b is hidden by the root filesystem's /srv, mounted over
-	// /data/a after it: the tmpfs still gives its own device, and the
-	// root filesystem's device is not listed.
-	mountinfo := strings.Join([]string{
-		"22 1 8:1 / / rw,relatime shared:1 - ext4 /dev/sda1 rw",
-		"23 22 0:21 / /proc rw,nosuid shared:12 - proc none rw",
-		"24 22 0:22 / /sys rw,nosuid shared:7 - sysfs none rw",
-		"25 22 0:23 / /data/a/b rw shared:2 - tmpfs none rw",
-		"26 22 8:1 /srv /data/a rw - ext4 /dev/sda1 rw",
-		"27 22 0:25 / /srv/auto rw shared:4 - autofs systemd-1 rw",
-	}, "\n")
-
-	got, err := readMountInfo(strings.NewReader(mountinfo))
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	want := map[uint64]string{
-		unix.Mkdev(0, 21): "proc", unix.Mkdev(0, 22): "sysfs",
-		unix.Mkdev(0, 23): "tmpfs", unix.Mkdev(0, 25): "autofs",
-	}
-	if !maps.Equal(got, want) {
-		t.Errorf("readMountInfo = %v, want %v", got, want)
-	}
-
-	for _, line := range []string{
-		"22 1 8:1 / / rw,relatime\n",
-		"22 1 sda / / rw,relatime shared:1 - ext4 /dev/sda1 rw\n",
-	} {
-		_, err = readMountInfo(strings.NewReader(line))
-		if !errors.Is(err, errMountInfoLine) {
-			t.Errorf("readMountInfo(%q) = %v, want %v", line, err,
-				errMountInfoLine)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestNonPersistentFilesystems(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	if runtime.GOOS != goosLinux {
-		t.Skip("the test knows a mount only on Linux: /proc")
-	}
-
-	nonPersistent, err := nonPersistentFilesystems()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	dev, ok := deviceOfPath("/proc")
-	if !ok {
-		t.Fatal("no device for /proc")
-	}
-
-	if got := nonPersistent[dev]; got != "proc" {
-		t.Errorf("filesystem of /proc = %q, want %q", got, "proc")
-	}
-}
-
-func TestDefaultExcludesHelp(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	for _, goos := range []string{goosLinux, goosDarwin, goosWindows} {
-		help := defaultExcludesHelp(goos)
-
-		for _, dir := range defaultExcludes(goos) {
-			if !strings.Contains(help, "\n  "+dir+"\n") {
-				t.Errorf("help for %s does not list %s:\n%s", goos, dir, help)
-			}
-		}
-
-		// Only Linux and macOS list their mounted filesystems.
-		for _, fsType := range nonPersistentFilesystemTypes() {
-			listed := strings.Contains(help, " "+fsType+",") ||
-				strings.Contains(help, " "+fsType+"\n")
-			if listed != (goos != goosWindows) {
-				t.Errorf("help for %s lists %s: %v", goos, fsType, listed)
-			}
-		}
-	}
-
-	want := "This system has no default excludes.\n"
-	if got := defaultExcludesHelp("freebsd"); got != want {
-		t.Errorf("help for freebsd = %q, want %q", got, want)
-	}
-
-	// scan's help shows those of the system it runs on.
-	var stdout, stderr bytes.Buffer
-
-	run([]string{cmdScan, "-h"}, &stdout, &stderr)
-
-	help := strings.TrimSpace(defaultExcludesHelp(runtime.GOOS))
-	if !strings.Contains(stderr.String(), help) {
-		t.Errorf("scan --help = %q, want it to hold %q", stderr.String(), help)
-	}
-}
-
-// TestScanDoesNotEnterDefaultExclude checks that the walk does not
-// enter a default exclude below an operand. It says so on a line of its
-// own and does not count it as skipped. The records below it count as
-// outside the operands: the record of a file gone from it is kept,
-// while a file added to it is not recorded.
-//
-//nolint:paralleltest // captureStderr replaces the process-wide os.Stderr
-func TestScanDoesNotEnterDefaultExclude(t *testing.T) {
-	stderr := captureStderr(t)
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	db := openTestDB(t)
-	excluded := filepath.Join(dir, "tmp")
-
-	// A scan with no default excludes records the file in excluded.
-	gone := writeFile(t, excluded, "gone", pattern(1, 100))
-	syncTree(t, db, dir)
-
-	err := os.Remove(gone)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	unseen := writeFile(t, excluded, "new", pattern(2, 10))
-
-	st, err := syncScan(t.Context(), db, []string{dir}, 1, false,
-		walkRules{excludes: []string{excluded}})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	if st.skipped != 0 {
-		t.Errorf("skipped = %d, want 0", st.skipped)
-	}
-
-	recs := dbRecords(t, db)
-	recordByPath(t, recs, gone)
-
-	if slices.Contains(recordPaths(recs), unseen) {
-		t.Errorf("%s recorded: the walk entered %s", unseen, excluded)
-	}
-
-	line := "\nscan: skipped " + excluded + " (default exclude)\n"
-	if !strings.Contains(stderr(), line) {
-		t.Errorf("stderr = %q, want %q", stderr(), line)
-	}
-}
-
-// TestScanWalksOperandInDefaultExclude checks that an operand at or
-// inside a default exclude is walked, also when it lies under another
-// operand, whose walk does not enter the default exclude.
-func TestScanWalksOperandInDefaultExclude(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	excluded := filepath.Join(dir, "tmp")
-	f := writeFile(t, excluded, "sub/f", pattern(1, 10))
-	sub := filepath.Dir(f)
-
-	cases := map[string][]string{
-		"at it":                      {excluded},
-		"inside it":                  {sub},
-		"inside it under an operand": {dir, sub},
-	}
-
-	for name, roots := range cases {
-		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			t.Parallel()
-
-			db := openTestDB(t)
-
-			st, err := syncScan(t.Context(), db, roots, 1, false,
-				walkRules{excludes: []string{excluded}})
-			if err != nil {
-				t.Fatal(err)
-			}
-
-			if st.added != 1 {
-				t.Errorf("added = %d, want %s recorded once", st.added, f)
-			}
-
-			recordByPath(t, dbRecords(t, db), f)
-		})
-	}
-}
-
-// TestScanNamesNoDefaultExcludeThatIsAnOperand checks that a default
-// exclude given as an operand under another operand, which the walk of
-// that other operand does not enter, gets no line saying it was
-// skipped: it is walked as an operand of its own.
-//
-//nolint:paralleltest // captureStderr replaces the process-wide os.Stderr
-func TestScanNamesNoDefaultExcludeThatIsAnOperand(t *testing.T) {
-	stderr := captureStderr(t)
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	db := openTestDB(t)
-	excluded := filepath.Join(dir, "tmp")
-	f := writeFile(t, excluded, "f", pattern(1, 10))
-
-	st, err := syncScan(t.Context(), db, []string{dir, excluded}, 1, false,
-		walkRules{excludes: []string{excluded}})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	if st.added != 1 {
-		t.Errorf("added = %d, want %s recorded once", st.added, f)
-	}
-
-	recordByPath(t, dbRecords(t, db), f)
-
-	if strings.Contains(stderr(), "scan: skipped") {
-		t.Errorf("stderr = %q, want no line for %s", stderr(), excluded)
-	}
-}
-
-// TestRunScanTempDirOperand scans a tree in the tests' temporary
-// directory, which on Linux lies inside the default exclude /tmp unless
-// TMPDIR names another place, with the system's own default excludes:
-// the scan walks the whole tree and reports no default exclude.
-func TestRunScanTempDirOperand(t *testing.T) {
-	path := testDBPath(t)
-	t.Setenv(databaseEnv, path)
-
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	if !underAnyRoot(dir, defaultExcludes(runtime.GOOS)) {
-		t.Skip(dir + " is not inside a default exclude")
-	}
-
-	f := writeFile(t, dir, "sub/f", pattern(1, 10))
-
-	stderr := scanOK(t, dir)
-	if strings.Contains(stderr, "scan: skipped") {
-		t.Errorf("stderr = %q, want no line saying a path was skipped",
-			stderr)
-	}
-
-	assertRecorded(t, path, f, true)
-}
-
-// TestRunScanNoDefaultExcludes scans /var through the command. Its
-// /var/tmp, on a persistent filesystem, is a default exclude on Linux:
-// without --no-default-excludes the walk does not enter it and says so,
-// and with that flag the walk records a file the test puts there.
-func TestRunScanNoDefaultExcludes(t *testing.T) {
-	if runtime.GOOS != goosLinux {
-		t.Skip("only Linux has /var/tmp among its default excludes")
-	}
-
-	nonPersistent, err := nonPersistentFilesystems()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	rules := walkRules{nonPersistent: nonPersistent}
-
-	for _, dir := range []string{"/var", "/var/tmp"} {
-		fi, lstatErr := os.Lstat(dir)
-		if lstatErr != nil || !fi.IsDir() ||
-			rules.nonPersistentLine(dir, fi) != "" {
-			t.Skip(dir + " is not a directory on a persistent filesystem here")
-		}
-	}
-
-	//nolint:usetesting // the directory must be inside /var/tmp
-	tmp, err := os.MkdirTemp("/var/tmp", "sfdupes-test-")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Skip("cannot write to /var/tmp here: " + err.Error())
-	}
-
-	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = os.RemoveAll(tmp) })
-
-	f := writeFile(t, tmp, "f", pattern(1, 10))
-
-	path := testDBPath(t)
-	t.Setenv(databaseEnv, path)
-
-	line := "scan: skipped /var/tmp (default exclude)\n"
-
-	if stderr := scanOK(t, "/var"); !strings.Contains(stderr, line) {
-		t.Errorf("scan /var: stderr = %q, want %q", stderr, line)
-	}
-
-	assertRecorded(t, path, f, false)
-
-	stderr := scanOK(t, "--no-default-excludes", "/var")
-	if strings.Contains(stderr, line) {
-		t.Errorf("scan --no-default-excludes /var: stderr = %q, want no %q",
-			stderr, line)
-	}
-
-	assertRecorded(t, path, f, true)
-}
-
-// TestRunScanSkipsNonPersistentOperand scans, through the command, a
-// directory on a filesystem that is not persistent, with and without
-// --no-default-excludes: either way it is skipped, with a line saying
-// so, and nothing in it is recorded.
-func TestRunScanSkipsNonPersistentOperand(t *testing.T) {
-	shm, fsType, _ := shmTempDir(t)
-	writeFile(t, shm, "f", pattern(1, 10))
-
-	t.Setenv(databaseEnv, testDBPath(t))
-
-	line := "scan: skipped " + shm + " (" + fsType +
-		", not a persistent filesystem)\n"
-	summary := "scan: 0 files seen"
-
-	for _, flags := range [][]string{nil, {"--no-default-excludes"}} {
-		stderr := scanOK(t, append(flags, shm)...)
-		if !strings.Contains(stderr, line) ||
-			!strings.Contains(stderr, summary) {
-			t.Errorf("scan %q: stderr = %q, want %q and %q", flags, stderr,
-				line, summary)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// TestScanKeepsRecordsOnNonPersistent scans a directory on a filesystem
-// that is not persistent beside one on the tests' temporary directory.
-// The records an earlier scan left in it count as outside the operands:
-// the record of a file gone from it is kept, while a file added to it
-// is not recorded.
-//
-//nolint:paralleltest // captureStderr replaces the process-wide os.Stderr
-func TestScanKeepsRecordsOnNonPersistent(t *testing.T) {
-	shm, fsType, rules := shmTempDir(t)
-	stderr := captureStderr(t)
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	db := openTestDB(t)
-
-	// A scan that, without the list of filesystems, records gone.
-	gone := writeFile(t, shm, "gone", pattern(1, 100))
-	syncTree(t, db, shm)
-
-	err := os.Remove(gone)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	unseen := writeFile(t, shm, "new", pattern(2, 10))
-
-	st, err := syncScan(t.Context(), db, []string{shm, dir}, 1, false, rules)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	if st.skipped != 0 {
-		t.Errorf("skipped = %d, want 0", st.skipped)
-	}
-
-	recs := dbRecords(t, db)
-	recordByPath(t, recs, gone)
-
-	if slices.Contains(recordPaths(recs), unseen) {
-		t.Errorf("%s recorded", unseen)
-	}
-
-	line := "scan: skipped " + shm + " (" + fsType +
-		", not a persistent filesystem)\n"
-	if !strings.Contains(stderr(), line) {
-		t.Errorf("stderr = %q, want %q", stderr(), line)
-	}
-}
-
-// TestWalkLeavesOutNonPersistent starts the walk itself in a directory
-// on a filesystem that is not persistent, which a scan never does: it
-// drops such an operand first. Below a directory on a persistent
-// filesystem, one on another takes a mount, which a test cannot make.
-// The walk enters no directory and records no file there, and names
-// each.
-func TestWalkLeavesOutNonPersistent(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	shm, fsType, rules := shmTempDir(t)
-	f := writeFile(t, shm, "f", pattern(1, 10))
-	sub := filepath.Dir(writeFile(t, shm, "sub/g", pattern(1, 10)))
-
-	var leftOut []string
-
-	for ev := range startWalk(t.Context(), []string{shm}, false, rules, 1) {
-		if ev.rec.path != "" {
-			t.Errorf("walk recorded %s", ev.rec.path)
-		}
-
-		if ev.leftOut == "" {
-			continue
-		}
-
-		leftOut = append(leftOut, ev.leftOut)
-
-		want := "scan: skipped " + ev.leftOut + " (" + fsType +
-			", not a persistent filesystem)"
-		if ev.warn != want {
-			t.Errorf("line = %q, want %q", ev.warn, want)
-		}
-	}
-
-	slices.Sort(leftOut)
-
-	if want := []string{f, sub}; !slices.Equal(leftOut, want) {
-		t.Errorf("walk left out %q, want %q", leftOut, want)
-	}
-}
-
-// shmTempDir returns a new directory in /dev/shm, removed when the test
-// ends, the type of its filesystem, and the rules holding the real
-// filesystems that are not persistent. It skips the test where /dev/shm
-// is on a persistent filesystem, or cannot be written to.
-func shmTempDir(t *testing.T) (string, string, walkRules) {
-	t.Helper()
-
-	nonPersistent, err := nonPersistentFilesystems()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	dev, ok := deviceOfPath("/dev/shm")
-
-	fsType, found := nonPersistent[dev]
-	if !ok || !found {
-		t.Skip("/dev/shm is not a memory-backed filesystem here")
-	}
-
-	//nolint:usetesting // the directory must be inside /dev/shm
-	dir, err := os.MkdirTemp("/dev/shm", "sfdupes-test-")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Skip("cannot write to /dev/shm here: " + err.Error())
-	}
-
-	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = os.RemoveAll(dir) })
-
-	return dir, fsType, walkRules{nonPersistent: nonPersistent}
-}
-
-// assertRecorded checks that the database at dbPath holds a record for
-// path when want is set, and none when it is not.
-func assertRecorded(t *testing.T, dbPath, path string, want bool) {
-	t.Helper()
-
-	db, err := openDB(dbPath, reportParams)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	defer func() { _ = db.Close() }()
-
-	if got := slices.Contains(recordPaths(dbRecords(t, db)), path); got != want {
-		t.Errorf("%s recorded: %v, want %v", path, got, want)
-	}
-}

go.mod

@@ -24,5 +24,3 @@ require (
 	modernc.org/mathutil v1.7.1 // indirect
 	modernc.org/memory v1.11.0 // indirect
 )
-
-retract v0.0.1 // early build without a database; does not work as the README describes

info.go

@@ -1,125 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"context"
-	"errors"
-	"fmt"
-	"io"
-	"io/fs"
-	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
-	"strings"
-	"time"
-)
-
-// infoPhase names one phase of info with its place among all of them,
-// as "[2/2] count", for the phase's progress display. The list here is
-// the one place the phases are counted.
-func infoPhase(name string) string {
-	return phaseLabel([]string{openPhase, "count"}, name)
-}
-
-// runInfo implements the info subcommand: it prints the database's
-// details on stdout (see writeInfo). It opens the database as report
-// does, read-only and without the scan lock, and never touches the
-// scanned filesystem. It names the database on stderr before it opens
-// it. Any database problem, including a missing database, is fatal.
-//
-// The work runs in two phases, each under a progress display of its
-// own on stderr: open (open the database) and count (count the records,
-// with one query). Each display ends before the next phase starts, and
-// before an error is returned to be printed. The details are written
-// once the last display has ended, so no display is drawn while they
-// are written.
-func runInfo(ctx context.Context, stdout io.Writer) error {
-	dbPath, source, err := databasePath()
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "info: database %s (%s)\n",
-		escapePath(dbPath), source)
-
-	// Opening can wait on a busy database for as long as the busy
-	// timeout.
-	prog := newProgress(progressParams{
-		label: infoPhase(openPhase), total: -1,
-		waitingFor: openingDatabase,
-	})
-	db, err := openReportDatabase(ctx, dbPath)
-
-	prog.finish()
-
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	defer func() { _ = db.Close() }()
-
-	// One query counts everything, so the phase never has a total.
-	prog = newProgress(progressParams{
-		label: infoPhase("count"), total: -1,
-		waitingFor: countingRecords,
-	})
-	counts, err := readDatabaseCounts(ctx, db)
-
-	prog.finish()
-
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("database %s: %w", dbPath, err)
-	}
-
-	return writeInfo(stdout, dbPath, source, counts)
-}
-
-// writeInfo writes the details of the database at dbPath to stdout,
-// one per line, as a name, a tab and the value (README "`info` mode"):
-// the path and source as databasePath returns them, the sizes of the
-// database file and of its -wal file when there is one, when the
-// database file was last changed, and the schema version and record
-// counts that readDatabaseCounts read.
-func writeInfo(stdout io.Writer, dbPath, source string,
-	counts databaseCounts,
-) error {
-	// SQLite keeps the -wal file beside the database file, named from
-	// its path with symlinks resolved.
-	file, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(dbPath)
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("database: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	dbFile, err := os.Stat(file)
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("database: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	walFile, err := os.Stat(file + "-wal")
-	if err != nil && !errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
-		return fmt.Errorf("database: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	var b strings.Builder
-
-	fmt.Fprintf(&b, "database\t%s (%s)\n", escapePath(dbPath), source)
-	fmt.Fprintf(&b, "database file size\t%d (%s)\n",
-		dbFile.Size(), humanBytes(dbFile.Size()))
-
-	if walFile != nil {
-		fmt.Fprintf(&b, "-wal file size\t%d (%s)\n",
-			walFile.Size(), humanBytes(walFile.Size()))
-	}
-
-	fmt.Fprintf(&b, "modified\t%s\n",
-		dbFile.ModTime().UTC().Format(time.RFC3339))
-	fmt.Fprintf(&b, "schema version\t%d\n", counts.schemaVersion)
-	fmt.Fprintf(&b, "records\t%d\n", counts.records)
-	fmt.Fprintf(&b, "size of recorded files\t%d (%s)\n",
-		counts.size, humanBytes(counts.size))
-
-	_, err = io.WriteString(stdout, b.String())
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("write stdout: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	return nil
-}

info_test.go

@@ -1,166 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-	"time"
-)
-
-// infoOpenLine is the plain line of info's open phase when it opens the
-// database at once; it prints it as the phase starts and as it ends.
-const infoOpenLine = "[1/2] open: opening the database, elapsed 0s, " +
-	"remain unknown"
-
-// infoCountLine is the plain line of info's count phase when the count
-// takes under a second; it prints it as the phase starts and as it
-// ends.
-const infoCountLine = "[2/2] count: counting the records, elapsed 0s, " +
-	"remain unknown"
-
-// infoRecs are four records: a duplicate pair, a file of 20 MiB and
-// another small file.
-func infoRecs() []scanRec {
-	h, tl, c, u := testHash("h"), testHash("t"), testHash("c"), testHash("u")
-	bigH, bigT, bigC := testHash("bh"), testHash("bt"), testHash("bc")
-
-	return []scanRec{
-		{size: 5, head: h, tail: tl, content: c, path: "/d/a"},
-		{size: 5, head: h, tail: tl, content: c, path: "/d/b"},
-		{size: 20 << 20, head: bigH, tail: bigT, content: bigC, path: "/d/big"},
-		{size: 7, head: u, tail: u, content: u, path: "/d/unique"},
-	}
-}
-
-// TestRunInfo runs info on an empty and on a filled database, with
-// stdout and stderr the same file that is not a terminal, and checks
-// everything written there: the line naming the database, each phase's
-// line as it starts and as it ends, and then the details, each on a
-// line of its own. No -wal file is beside a database scan has closed.
-func TestRunInfo(t *testing.T) {
-	cases := map[string]struct {
-		recs []scanRec
-		want string // the details after the database file's time
-	}{
-		"empty": {
-			want: "schema version\t1\n" +
-				"records\t0\n" +
-				"size of recorded files\t0 (0 B)\n",
-		},
-		"filled": {
-			recs: infoRecs(),
-			want: "schema version\t1\n" +
-				"records\t4\n" +
-				"size of recorded files\t20971537 (20.0 MiB)\n",
-		},
-	}
-
-	for name, tc := range cases {
-		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			path := seedDatabase(t, tc.recs)
-			t.Setenv(databaseEnv, path)
-
-			file, err := os.Stat(path)
-			if err != nil {
-				t.Fatal(err)
-			}
-
-			stderr := captureStderr(t)
-
-			code := run([]string{cmdInfo}, os.Stderr, os.Stderr)
-			if code != exitOK {
-				t.Fatalf("run(info) = %d, want %d; stderr: %s",
-					code, exitOK, stderr())
-			}
-
-			named := path + " (from " + databaseEnv + ")\n"
-			want := "info: database " + named +
-				infoOpenLine + "\n" + infoOpenLine + "\n" +
-				infoCountLine + "\n" + infoCountLine + "\n" +
-				"database\t" + named +
-				fmt.Sprintf("database file size\t%d (%s)\n",
-					file.Size(), humanBytes(file.Size())) +
-				"modified\t" + file.ModTime().UTC().Format(time.RFC3339) +
-				"\n" + tc.want
-
-			if got := stderr(); got != want {
-				t.Errorf("stdout and stderr = %q, want %q", got, want)
-			}
-		})
-	}
-}
-
-// TestRunInfoDuringScan runs info while a scan holds the lock and has
-// the database open in WAL mode, with records committed to the -wal
-// file only. info must count those records and show the -wal file's
-// size, also when the database path is a symlink: SQLite keeps the
-// -wal file beside the symlink's target.
-func TestRunInfoDuringScan(t *testing.T) {
-	path := testDBPath(t)
-	link := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "link.sqlite")
-
-	err := os.Symlink(path, link)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	db, err := openScanDatabase(t.Context(), path)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = db.Close() })
-
-	err = applyChanges(t.Context(), db, infoRecs(), nil, nil)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	holdScanLock(t, path)
-
-	wal, err := os.Stat(path + "-wal")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	for _, named := range []string{path, link} {
-		t.Run(filepath.Base(named), func(t *testing.T) {
-			t.Setenv(databaseEnv, named)
-
-			stdout := runStdout(t, cmdInfo)
-
-			for _, want := range []string{
-				"database\t" + named + " (from " + databaseEnv + ")\n",
-				fmt.Sprintf("\n-wal file size\t%d (%s)\n",
-					wal.Size(), humanBytes(wal.Size())),
-				"\nrecords\t4\n",
-			} {
-				if !strings.Contains(stdout, want) {
-					t.Errorf("stdout = %q, want it to hold %q", stdout, want)
-				}
-			}
-		})
-	}
-}
-
-func TestRunInfoNeedsOnlyReadAccess(t *testing.T) {
-	// README "`info` mode": like report, info needs only read access to
-	// the database file and none to its directory.
-	path := testDBPath(t)
-	t.Setenv(databaseEnv, path)
-
-	scanFixture(t)
-	makeReadOnly(t, path)
-
-	stdout := runStdout(t, cmdInfo)
-
-	if want := "\nrecords\t2\n"; !strings.Contains(stdout, want) {
-		t.Errorf("stdout = %q, want it to hold %q", stdout, want)
-	}
-
-	if strings.Contains(stdout, "-wal") {
-		t.Errorf("stdout = %q, want no -wal file between scans", stdout)
-	}
-}

main.go

@@ -1,19 +1,20 @@
 // Command sfdupes quickly identifies candidate duplicate files across
 // very large filesystems without reading every byte of every file.
 // Files are considered duplicates when their sizes are equal and they
-// agree on three SHA-256 hashes: of the first 64 KiB, of the last 64
+// agree on a short ladder of SHA-256 hashes. A file under 10 MiB is
-// KiB, and of the content. The content hash covers the whole file under
+// hashed in full. A larger file is compared on the hashes of its first
-// 100 MiB, and 1 MiB at each gigabyte at 100 MiB or more, so a large
+// and last 64 KiB, and only when those match another file's is its
-// file is never read in full. scan maintains a persistent SQLite
+// content hash computed and compared: of the whole file when it is
-// database of file signatures (SFDUPES_DATABASE, default
+// under 50 MiB, or of gigabyte-spaced 1 MiB samples when it is 50 MiB
-// /var/lib/sfdupes/db.sqlite) that the other subcommands read.
+// or larger. scan maintains a persistent SQLite database of file
+// signatures (SFDUPES_DATABASE, default /var/lib/sfdupes/db.sqlite)
+// that the reporting subcommands read.
 //
 // Usage:
 //
-//	sfdupes scan [--workers N] [-x] [--no-default-excludes] PATH...
+//	sfdupes scan [--workers N] [-x] PATH...
 //	sfdupes report > dupes.tsv
 //	sfdupes trees > dupetrees.tsv
-//	sfdupes info
 //	sfdupes --version
 //
 // See README.md for the complete specification.
@@ -26,7 +27,6 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"os"
 	"runtime"
-	"runtime/debug"
 
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
 )
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ const (
 	cmdScan   = "scan"
 	cmdReport = "report"
 	cmdTrees  = "trees"
-	cmdInfo   = "info"
 )
 
 // errNoSubcommand is returned by the root command when it is invoked
@@ -57,32 +56,10 @@ var errNoSubcommand = errors.New("no subcommand")
 var errWorkersBelowOne = errors.New("--workers must be at least 1")
 
 // Version is the build version, injected at link time via -ldflags
-// (see the Makefile); empty when the linker set none, as for a binary
+// (see the Makefile); "dev" for a plain go build.
-// built by go install. buildVersion turns it into what --version prints.
 //
 //nolint:gochecknoglobals // written only by the linker
-var Version string
+var Version = "dev"
-
-// buildVersion returns the version that sfdupes --version prints
-// (README "Install"): the version the linker set, when it set one;
-// otherwise the main module's version that Go recorded in the binary,
-// a tag such as v0.0.2 or the pseudo-version of an @main build; and
-// "dev" when neither is known. info is what debug.ReadBuildInfo
-// returns, nil when the binary carries none. Go records "(devel)" for
-// a build that has no version, such as one inside a copy of the source
-// without git.
-func buildVersion(linkerVersion string, info *debug.BuildInfo) string {
-	if linkerVersion != "" {
-		return linkerVersion
-	}
-
-	if info == nil || info.Main.Version == "" ||
-		info.Main.Version == "(devel)" {
-		return "dev"
-	}
-
-	return info.Main.Version
-}
 
 func main() {
 	// Once the reader of a stdout pipe has gone, as in "sfdupes report |
@@ -96,8 +73,8 @@ func main() {
 // exit code. It is the program's single exit point: the subcommands
 // return their errors instead of exiting, so every deferred cleanup —
 // above all closing the database, which checkpoints the SQLite WAL —
-// runs before the process ends. The report, trees and info subcommands
+// runs before the process ends. The report and trees subcommands write
-// write their data to stdout.
+// their data to stdout.
 func run(args []string, stdout, stderr io.Writer) int {
 	// A nil slice makes cobra fall back to os.Args, which would let a
 	// test binary's own flags reach the command tree.
@@ -137,10 +114,7 @@ func newRootCommand(stdout, stderr io.Writer) *cobra.Command {
 	var showVersion bool
 
 	printVersion := runE(func(context.Context, []string) error {
-		info, _ := debug.ReadBuildInfo()
+		_, err := fmt.Fprintf(stdout, "sfdupes %s\n", Version)
-
-		_, err := fmt.Fprintf(stdout, "sfdupes %s\n",
-			buildVersion(Version, info))
 		if err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("write stdout: %w", err)
 		}
@@ -174,6 +148,30 @@ func newRootCommand(stdout, stderr io.Writer) *cobra.Command {
 	root.Flags().BoolVarP(&showVersion, "version", "v", false,
 		"print the version to stdout")
 
+	var (
+		scanWorkers int
+		scanOneFS   bool
+	)
+
+	scanCmd := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   cmdScan + " [--workers N] [-x] PATH...",
+		Short: "Walk trees and synchronize the scan database",
+		Args:  cobra.MinimumNArgs(1),
+		PreRunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
+			return checkScanWorkers(cmd, scanWorkers)
+		},
+		RunE: runE(func(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
+			ctx, stop := interruptContext(ctx)
+			defer stop()
+
+			return runScan(ctx, args, scanWorkers, scanOneFS)
+		}),
+	}
+	scanCmd.Flags().IntVar(&scanWorkers, "workers", runtime.NumCPU(),
+		"concurrent workers for the walk, hash, and content phases")
+	scanCmd.Flags().BoolVarP(&scanOneFS, "one-file-system", "x", false,
+		"do not cross filesystem boundaries")
+
 	reportCmd := &cobra.Command{
 		Use:   cmdReport,
 		Short: "Read the scan database and print the file-level duplicates report",
@@ -192,59 +190,11 @@ func newRootCommand(stdout, stderr io.Writer) *cobra.Command {
 		}),
 	}
 
-	infoCmd := &cobra.Command{
+	root.AddCommand(scanCmd, reportCmd, treesCmd)
-		Use:   cmdInfo,
-		Short: "Read the scan database and print its details",
-		Args:  cobra.NoArgs,
-		RunE: runE(func(ctx context.Context, _ []string) error {
-			return runInfo(ctx, stdout)
-		}),
-	}
-
-	root.AddCommand(newScanCommand(), reportCmd, treesCmd, infoCmd)
 
 	return root
 }
 
-// newScanCommand builds the scan subcommand, with its --workers, -x and
-// --no-default-excludes flags. Its help lists the default excludes of
-// the system it runs on, and the filesystem types it never records
-// anything on.
-func newScanCommand() *cobra.Command {
-	var (
-		scanWorkers           int
-		scanOneFS             bool
-		scanNoDefaultExcludes bool
-	)
-
-	short := "Walk trees and synchronize the scan database"
-
-	scanCmd := &cobra.Command{
-		Use:   cmdScan + " [--workers N] [-x] [--no-default-excludes] PATH...",
-		Short: short,
-		Long:  short + ".\n\n" + defaultExcludesHelp(runtime.GOOS),
-		Args:  cobra.MinimumNArgs(1),
-		PreRunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
-			return checkScanWorkers(cmd, scanWorkers)
-		},
-		RunE: runE(func(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
-			ctx, stop := interruptContext(ctx)
-			defer stop()
-
-			return runScan(ctx, args, scanWorkers, scanOneFS,
-				scanNoDefaultExcludes)
-		}),
-	}
-	scanCmd.Flags().IntVar(&scanWorkers, "workers", runtime.NumCPU(),
-		"concurrent workers for the walk and hash phases")
-	scanCmd.Flags().BoolVarP(&scanOneFS, "one-file-system", "x", false,
-		"do not cross filesystem boundaries")
-	scanCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&scanNoDefaultExcludes, "no-default-excludes",
-		false, "enter the default excludes, the paths listed above")
-
-	return scanCmd
-}
-
 // checkScanWorkers rejects a scan --workers value below 1. That is a
 // usage error reported in one line: cobra prints the returned message
 // without the usage text, and run exits 2.

main_test.go

@@ -4,12 +4,10 @@ import (
 	"bytes"
 	"context"
 	"errors"
-	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"io/fs"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
-	"runtime/debug"
 	"slices"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
@@ -20,36 +18,6 @@ import (
 // error prints and a runtime failure must not.
 const usageMarker = "Usage:"
 
-// TestMain stops the tests at once, saying why, when their temporary
-// directory is not on a persistent filesystem: scan records nothing
-// there (README "Rules for the walk"), so most scan tests would fail
-// without saying why.
-func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
-	nonPersistent, err := nonPersistentFilesystems()
-	if err != nil {
-		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "list the mounted filesystems: %v\n", err)
-		os.Exit(1)
-	}
-
-	dir := os.TempDir()
-
-	fi, err := os.Stat(dir)
-	if err != nil {
-		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
-		os.Exit(1)
-	}
-
-	dev, ok := deviceOfInfo(fi)
-	if fsType, found := nonPersistent[dev]; ok && found {
-		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "%s is on %s, not a persistent filesystem, "+
-			"and scan records nothing there: set TMPDIR to a directory on a "+
-			"persistent filesystem\n", dir, fsType)
-		os.Exit(1)
-	}
-
-	os.Exit(m.Run())
-}
-
 // walSuffixes are the SQLite sidecar files a WAL-mode database keeps
 // while it is open. A clean close checkpoints the WAL and removes
 // both; finding either afterwards means the database was never closed.
@@ -316,16 +284,10 @@ func assertFatalOutput(t *testing.T, stderr, stdout string) {
 }
 
 func TestRunMissingDatabaseIsFatal(t *testing.T) {
-	// README §Database: report, trees and info need an existing
+	// README §Database: report and trees need an existing database; a
-	// database; a missing one exits 1 with a message telling the user to
+	// missing one exits 1 with a message telling the user to run scan,
-	// run scan, after the line naming the database.
+	// after the line naming the database.
-	openLines := map[string]string{
+	for _, name := range []string{cmdReport, cmdTrees} {
-		cmdReport: reportOpenLine,
-		cmdTrees:  treesOpenLine,
-		cmdInfo:   infoOpenLine,
-	}
-
-	for name, openLine := range openLines {
 		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
 			path := testDBPath(t)
 			t.Setenv(databaseEnv, path)
@@ -341,10 +303,8 @@ func TestRunMissingDatabaseIsFatal(t *testing.T) {
 				t.Errorf("run(%s) = %d, want %d", name, code, exitFatal)
 			}
 
-			// Each shows its open phase, as it starts and as it ends,
-			// before the error.
 			want := name + ": database " + path + " (from " + databaseEnv +
-				")\n" + openLine + "\n" + openLine + "\n" +
+				")\n" +
 				"sfdupes: " + path + ": no database (run \"sfdupes " +
 				"scan\" first, or set " + databaseEnv + ")\n"
 			if got := stderr(); got != want {
@@ -393,7 +353,7 @@ func TestRunNamesRelativeDatabase(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestRunUsesDatabaseThroughSymlinkedDirectory(t *testing.T) {
-	// README §Settings: the path names the file exactly. With link a
+	// README §Database: the path names the file exactly. With link a
 	// symlink to the directory real/sub, link/../db.sqlite names
 	// real/db.sqlite, not db.sqlite beside link. Every subcommand must
 	// use that file, relative or absolute, and its first line must name
@@ -545,9 +505,8 @@ func TestRunNamesDefaultDatabase(t *testing.T) {
 	// exist at the default path on the machine running the test, so
 	// nothing here may create or read one: scan gets an operand that
 	// does not exist, which stops it before it takes the lock, and
-	// report, trees and info a cancelled context, which stops them
+	// report and trees a cancelled context, which stops them before
-	// before they read anything. They show their open phase after the
+	// they read anything.
-	// line.
 	t.Setenv(databaseEnv, "")
 
 	// Whether scan calls the database new depends on that machine too.
@@ -567,7 +526,7 @@ func TestRunNamesDefaultDatabase(t *testing.T) {
 	}{
 		cmdScan: {
 			run: func() error {
-				return runScan(t.Context(), []string{missing}, 1, false, false)
+				return runScan(t.Context(), []string{missing}, 1, false)
 			},
 			want: scanWant,
 		},
@@ -575,22 +534,13 @@ func TestRunNamesDefaultDatabase(t *testing.T) {
 			run: func() error {
 				return runReport(cancelledContext(t), io.Discard)
 			},
-			want: "report: database " + defaultDatabasePath + " (default)\n" +
+			want: "report: database " + defaultDatabasePath + " (default)\n",
-				reportOpenLine + "\n" + reportOpenLine + "\n",
 		},
 		cmdTrees: {
 			run: func() error {
 				return runTrees(cancelledContext(t), io.Discard)
 			},
-			want: "trees: database " + defaultDatabasePath + " (default)\n" +
+			want: "trees: database " + defaultDatabasePath + " (default)\n",
-				treesOpenLine + "\n" + treesOpenLine + "\n",
-		},
-		cmdInfo: {
-			run: func() error {
-				return runInfo(cancelledContext(t), io.Discard)
-			},
-			want: "info: database " + defaultDatabasePath + " (default)\n" +
-				infoOpenLine + "\n" + infoOpenLine + "\n",
 		},
 	}
 
@@ -618,7 +568,6 @@ func TestRunUsageErrors(t *testing.T) {
 		"scan without paths": {[]string{cmdScan}, usageMarker},
 		"report with args":   {[]string{cmdReport, "x"}, usageMarker},
 		"trees with args":    {[]string{cmdTrees, "x"}, usageMarker},
-		"info with args":     {[]string{cmdInfo, "x"}, usageMarker},
 		"unknown flag":       {[]string{cmdScan, "--nope", "/"}, usageMarker},
 		"unknown subcommand": {[]string{"nope"}, "unknown command"},
 	}
@@ -648,7 +597,7 @@ func TestRunUsageErrors(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestRunScanRejectsWorkersBelowOne(t *testing.T) {
-	// README §Settings: --workers below 1 is a usage error reported in
+	// README §scan mode: --workers below 1 is a usage error reported in
 	// one line on stderr, before the scan opens the database.
 	for _, workers := range []string{"0", "-1"} {
 		t.Run(workers, func(t *testing.T) {
@@ -686,8 +635,8 @@ func TestRunScanRejectsWorkersBelowOne(t *testing.T) {
 func TestRunHelp(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
-	// README §Settings: help goes to stderr, exits 0, and leaves stdout
+	// README §Subcommands: help goes to stderr, exits 0, and leaves
-	// empty.
+	// stdout empty.
 	cases := [][]string{{"--help"}, {"-h"}, {cmdScan, "--help"}}
 
 	for _, args := range cases {
@@ -713,10 +662,8 @@ func TestRunHelp(t *testing.T) {
 func TestRunVersion(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
-	// README §Settings: the version is one line on stdout, with nothing
+	// README §Subcommands: the version is one line on stdout, with
-	// on stderr, and exits 0.
+	// nothing on stderr, and exits 0.
-	info, _ := debug.ReadBuildInfo()
-
 	for _, arg := range []string{"--version", "-v"} {
 		var stdout, stderr bytes.Buffer
 
@@ -725,7 +672,7 @@ func TestRunVersion(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("run(%s) = %d, want %d", arg, code, exitOK)
 		}
 
-		want := "sfdupes " + buildVersion(Version, info) + "\n"
+		want := "sfdupes " + Version + "\n"
 		if got := stdout.String(); got != want {
 			t.Errorf("run(%s) stdout = %q, want %q", arg, got, want)
 		}
@@ -736,45 +683,11 @@ func TestRunVersion(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestBuildVersion(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	// README "Install": the linker's version wins; otherwise the main
-	// module's version that Go recorded; "dev" when neither is known.
-	tagged := &debug.BuildInfo{Main: debug.Module{Version: "v0.0.2"}}
-	pseudo := &debug.BuildInfo{Main: debug.Module{
-		Version: "v1.0.0-rc2.0.20261016120000-4e4a94d0c2a1",
-	}}
-	devel := &debug.BuildInfo{Main: debug.Module{Version: "(devel)"}}
-
-	cases := []struct {
-		name   string
-		linker string
-		info   *debug.BuildInfo
-		want   string
-	}{
-		{"linker set", "v0.0.2-3-g4e4a94d", tagged, "v0.0.2-3-g4e4a94d"},
-		{"linker set, no build info", "4e4a94d", nil, "4e4a94d"},
-		{"build info with a tag", "", tagged, "v0.0.2"},
-		{"build info with a pseudo-version", "", pseudo,
-			"v1.0.0-rc2.0.20261016120000-4e4a94d0c2a1"},
-		{"(devel)", "", devel, "dev"},
-		{"no build info", "", nil, "dev"},
-	}
-
-	for _, c := range cases {
-		if got := buildVersion(c.linker, c.info); got != c.want {
-			t.Errorf("%s: buildVersion(%q, ...) = %q, want %q",
-				c.name, c.linker, got, c.want)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
 func TestRunVersionWriteFailureIsFatal(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
-	// README §Error handling: a failed write to stdout is a fatal error,
+	// README §Error handling: a stdout write failure exits 1, reported
-	// exit 1, reported on stderr starting with "sfdupes:".
+	// in one line on stderr.
 	var stderr bytes.Buffer
 
 	code := run([]string{"--version"}, failingWriter{}, &stderr)
@@ -928,21 +841,24 @@ func TestRunScanWalksOperandUnderSymlinkOperand(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestRunScanSkipsZFSOperand(t *testing.T) {
-	zfs := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), ".zfs")
+	path := testDBPath(t)
-	f := writeFile(t, zfs, "snapshot/hourly/f", pattern(1, 10))
-
-	// No scan records a file inside a .zfs directory, so the record
-	// beneath the operand is written straight into the database.
-	path := seedDatabase(t, []scanRec{{size: 10, path: f}})
 	t.Setenv(databaseEnv, path)
 
+	zfs := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), ".zfs")
+	snapshot := filepath.Join(zfs, "snapshot", "hourly")
+	f := writeFile(t, snapshot, "f", pattern(1, 10))
+
+	// An operand beneath a .zfs directory is walked, because it is not
+	// itself named .zfs.
+	scanOK(t, snapshot)
+
 	assertOperandSkipped(t, path, zfs, ".zfs directory", f)
 }
 
 // assertOperandSkipped scans operand alone and checks that it is skipped
 // as kind: a warning naming it, one skip in the summary, exit 0, and the
-// record for kept, stored beneath operand before this scan, still in the
+// record for kept, which an earlier scan stored beneath operand, still
-// database at dbPath.
+// in the database at dbPath.
 func assertOperandSkipped(t *testing.T, dbPath, operand, kind,
 	kept string,
 ) {
@@ -971,121 +887,6 @@ func assertOperandSkipped(t *testing.T, dbPath, operand, kind,
 	recordByPath(t, dbRecords(t, db), kept)
 }
 
-// TestRunScanSkipsOperandInsideZFS scans a directory inside a .zfs
-// directory, first alone and then under another operand. Each time it
-// is warned about and counted as skipped, and nothing in it is walked.
-// The other operand is scanned as usual.
-func TestRunScanSkipsOperandInsideZFS(t *testing.T) {
-	path := testDBPath(t)
-	t.Setenv(databaseEnv, path)
-
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	hourly := filepath.Join(dir, ".zfs", "snapshot", "hourly")
-	writeFile(t, hourly, "f", pattern(1, 10))
-	f := writeFile(t, dir, "f", pattern(2, 10))
-
-	warning := "walk " + hourly + ": skipping operand inside a .zfs directory\n"
-
-	for _, tc := range []struct {
-		operands []string
-		summary  string
-	}{
-		{
-			[]string{hourly},
-			"scan: 0 files seen (0 added, 0 updated, 0 removed, " +
-				"0 unchanged), 1 skipped\n",
-		},
-		{
-			[]string{dir, hourly},
-			"scan: 1 files seen (1 added, 0 updated, 0 removed, " +
-				"0 unchanged), 1 skipped\n",
-		},
-	} {
-		stderr := scanOK(t, tc.operands...)
-		if !strings.Contains(stderr, warning) ||
-			!strings.Contains(stderr, tc.summary) {
-			t.Errorf("scan %q: stderr = %q, want %q and %q", tc.operands,
-				stderr, warning, tc.summary)
-		}
-	}
-
-	db, err := openDB(path, reportParams)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = db.Close() })
-
-	if got := recordPaths(dbRecords(t, db)); !slices.Equal(got, []string{f}) {
-		t.Errorf("records = %q, want %q", got, []string{f})
-	}
-}
-
-// TestRunScanSkipsOperandThroughSymlinkIntoZFS scans snaps/daily, where
-// snaps is a symlink to pool/.zfs/snapshot. The operand is warned about
-// by the path given, counted as skipped, and not walked.
-func TestRunScanSkipsOperandThroughSymlinkIntoZFS(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Setenv(databaseEnv, testDBPath(t))
-
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	writeFile(t, dir, "pool/.zfs/snapshot/daily/f", pattern(1, 10))
-
-	snaps := filepath.Join(dir, "snaps")
-
-	err := os.Symlink(filepath.Join(dir, "pool", ".zfs", "snapshot"), snaps)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	daily := filepath.Join(snaps, "daily")
-	stderr := scanOK(t, daily)
-
-	warning := "walk " + daily + ": skipping operand inside a .zfs directory\n"
-	summary := "scan: 0 files seen (0 added, 0 updated, 0 removed, " +
-		"0 unchanged), 1 skipped\n"
-
-	if !strings.Contains(stderr, warning) ||
-		!strings.Contains(stderr, summary) {
-		t.Errorf("stderr = %q, want %q and %q", stderr, warning, summary)
-	}
-}
-
-// TestRunScanWalksOperandThroughSymlink scans data/daily, where data is
-// a symlink to a directory outside any .zfs directory. The operand is
-// scanned as usual, and its file is recorded by the path given.
-func TestRunScanWalksOperandThroughSymlink(t *testing.T) {
-	path := testDBPath(t)
-	t.Setenv(databaseEnv, path)
-
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	writeFile(t, dir, "pool/data/daily/f", pattern(1, 10))
-
-	data := filepath.Join(dir, "data")
-
-	err := os.Symlink(filepath.Join(dir, "pool", "data"), data)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	daily := filepath.Join(data, "daily")
-	stderr := scanOK(t, daily)
-
-	summary := "scan: 1 files seen (1 added, 0 updated, 0 removed, " +
-		"0 unchanged), 0 skipped\n"
-	if !strings.Contains(stderr, summary) {
-		t.Errorf("stderr = %q, want %q", stderr, summary)
-	}
-
-	db, err := openDB(path, reportParams)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = db.Close() })
-
-	recordByPath(t, dbRecords(t, db), filepath.Join(daily, "f"))
-}
-
 func TestRunReportSucceeds(t *testing.T) {
 	path := testDBPath(t)
 	t.Setenv(databaseEnv, path)
@@ -1107,16 +908,11 @@ func TestRunReportSucceeds(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("stdout = %q, want %q", got, want)
 	}
 
-	// Its phases come between the two lines; see
+	want = "report: database " + path + " (from " + databaseEnv + ")\n" +
-	// TestRunReportProgressNamesEachPhase.
+		"report: 2 records read, 1 duplicate groups, 1 dupe files, " +
-	first := "report: database " + path + " (from " + databaseEnv + ")\n"
-	last := "\nreport: 2 records read, 1 duplicate groups, 1 dupe files, " +
 		"300 B reclaimable\n"
-
+	if got := stderr(); got != want {
-	if got := stderr(); !strings.HasPrefix(got, first) ||
+		t.Errorf("stderr = %q, want %q", got, want)
-		!strings.HasSuffix(got, last) {
-		t.Errorf("stderr = %q, want it to start %q and end %q",
-			got, first, last)
 	}
 
 	assertNoSidecars(t, path)
@@ -1146,16 +942,11 @@ func TestRunTreesSucceeds(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("stdout = %q, want %q", got, want)
 	}
 
-	// Its phases come between the two lines; see
+	want = "trees: database " + path + " (from " + databaseEnv + ")\n" +
-	// TestRunTreesProgressNamesEachPhase.
+		"trees: 2 records read, 1 duplicate tree groups, 1 dupe trees, " +
-	first := "trees: database " + path + " (from " + databaseEnv + ")\n"
+		"300 B reclaimable\n"
-	last := "\ntrees: 2 records read, 1 duplicate tree groups, " +
+	if got := stderr(); got != want {
-		"1 dupe trees, 300 B reclaimable\n"
+		t.Errorf("stderr = %q, want %q", got, want)
-
-	if got := stderr(); !strings.HasPrefix(got, first) ||
-		!strings.HasSuffix(got, last) {
-		t.Errorf("stderr = %q, want it to start %q and end %q",
-			got, first, last)
 	}
 
 	assertNoSidecars(t, path)
@@ -1234,7 +1025,7 @@ func assertRunsUseDatabase(t *testing.T, dir, name string) {
 }
 
 func TestRunDatabasePathUsedAsGiven(t *testing.T) {
-	// README §Settings: the path names the database file exactly. In
+	// README §Database: the path names the database file exactly. In
 	// SQLite's connection string an unescaped ? or # would end the file
 	// name and % would start an escape, and a path starting with //
 	// could be read as a host name. %25 is a valid escape, so unescaped
@@ -1279,8 +1070,9 @@ func holdScanLock(t *testing.T, path string) {
 }
 
 func TestRunSecondScanFails(t *testing.T) {
-	// README §Database: a second scan that finds the lock held fails
+	// README §Database: while one scan holds the lock, a second scan
-	// at once, naming the lock file, without opening the database.
+	// fails at once, naming the lock file, without opening the
+	// database.
 	path := testDBPath(t)
 	t.Setenv(databaseEnv, path)
 
@@ -1339,7 +1131,7 @@ func assertSecondScanFails(t *testing.T, path string) {
 }
 
 func TestRunSecondScanThroughSymlinkFails(t *testing.T) {
-	// README §Database: a path through a symlink names the same lock
+	// README §Database: every path to one database names the same lock
 	// file, so while a scan holds it through one path, a scan through
 	// another fails, naming the lock file beside the database's real
 	// path.
@@ -1444,9 +1236,9 @@ func TestRunReportsDuringScan(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestRunStdoutClosedIsFatal(t *testing.T) {
-	// README §Error handling: a failed write to stdout is a fatal error,
+	// README §Error handling: a stdout write failure exits 1, reported
-	// exit 1, reported on stderr starting with "sfdupes:".
+	// in one line on stderr.
-	for _, name := range []string{cmdReport, cmdTrees, cmdInfo} {
+	for _, name := range []string{cmdReport, cmdTrees} {
 		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Setenv(databaseEnv, testDBPath(t))
 
@@ -1496,7 +1288,6 @@ func TestStdoutWriteErrorPropagates(t *testing.T) {
 	cases := map[string]func(context.Context, io.Writer) error{
 		cmdReport: runReport,
 		cmdTrees:  runTrees,
-		cmdInfo:   runInfo,
 	}
 
 	for name, fn := range cases {

progress.go

@@ -2,14 +2,11 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
-	"io"
 	"math"
 	"os"
 	"slices"
-	"strings"
 	"sync"
 	"time"
-	"unicode/utf8"
 
 	"github.com/schollz/progressbar/v3"
 	"golang.org/x/term"
@@ -23,29 +20,13 @@ const plainInterval = 5 * time.Second
 // a TTY.
 const redrawInterval = 100 * time.Millisecond
 
-// rateWindow is the time the rate a display shows covers: the items
-// completed over the last rateWindow, which is the time since the line
-// before when stderr is not a TTY.
-const rateWindow = 5 * time.Second
-
-// stallTime is how long a phase goes with no item completed before its
-// line says it has stalled, and where it waits, in place of the rate.
-const stallTime = 10 * time.Second
-
 // spinnerType selects the progressbar library's spinner style.
 const spinnerType = 14
 
-// barWidth is the width of a phase's bar between its two ends, as in
+// barWidth is the width of the progressbar library's bar between its
-// the example line in README "Progress".
+// two ends, as in the example line in README "Progress".
 const barWidth = 10
 
-// barCell is one column of the filled part of a bar.
-const barCell = "█"
-
-// barColumns is the width of what percentBar returns: the percent in
-// four columns and its sign, a space, and the bar with its two ends.
-const barColumns = barWidth + 8
-
 // percentScale converts a fraction to a percentage.
 const percentScale = 100
 
@@ -53,23 +34,16 @@ const percentScale = 100
 // read, as the progressbar library takes it.
 const fallbackWidth = 80
 
-// spinnerMargin is the columns of a line besides its text: the spinner
+// spinnerMargin is the columns of a spinner's line besides its text:
-// and the three spaces the library draws around the text, and the
+// the spinner and the three spaces the library draws around the text,
-// terminal's last column, which every line stays clear of so that no
+// and the terminal's last column, which every line stays clear of so
-// terminal wraps it.
+// that no terminal wraps it.
 const spinnerMargin = 5
 
-// countingRecords is what the display of a phase that reads the records
+// barMargin is the columns of a bar's line besides its text: the
-// says while it counts them, before it has its total.
+// percent and the bar the library draws after the text, the spaces
-const countingRecords = "counting the records"
+// around them, and the terminal's last column.
-
+const barMargin = barWidth + 11
-// openPhase is the name of the phase in which report, trees and info
-// open the database, and openingDatabase what its display says while
-// it does.
-const (
-	openPhase       = "open"
-	openingDatabase = "opening the database"
-)
 
 // stderrIsTTY reports whether stderr is attached to a terminal.
 func stderrIsTTY() bool {
@@ -88,7 +62,7 @@ func terminalWidth() int {
 	return width
 }
 
-// phaseLabel names phase with its place among phases, as "[2/4] walk".
+// phaseLabel names phase with its place among phases, as "[2/5] walk".
 func phaseLabel(phases []string, phase string) string {
 	return fmt.Sprintf("[%d/%d] %s",
 		slices.Index(phases, phase)+1, len(phases), phase)
@@ -97,85 +71,63 @@ func phaseLabel(phases []string, phase string) string {
 // progressParams describe one phase's progress display as it starts.
 type progressParams struct {
 	label      string // the phase and its place, from phaseLabel
-	unit       string // what the phase counts, as "files"
 	total      int64  // the items the phase will complete; -1 when not known
 	estimate   bool   // total is an estimate, which the count may pass
 	waitingFor string // what the phase waits for until setTotal is called
-	stalledOn  string // where the phase waits, as "disk/db"; see stallTime
-}
-
-// drawnCount is the count of items completed as of one draw, and when
-// that draw was.
-type drawnCount struct {
-	at    time.Time
-	count int64
 }
 
 // progress renders one phase's progress on stderr. On a TTY the
-// progressbar library draws its spinner and then line, fitted to the
+// progressbar library draws line, fitted to the terminal's width: after
-// terminal's width. A phase with an exact total ends the line with its
+// the library's spinner, or, for a phase with an exact total, before the
-// percent and bar, at the terminal's right edge, when the terminal has
+// library's bar when the terminal has room for the bar beside it. It is
-// room for them. It is drawn again every redrawInterval, so its elapsed
+// drawn again every redrawInterval, so its elapsed time keeps moving
-// time keeps moving while the phase waits for its next item. When
+// while the phase waits for its next item. When stderr is not a TTY it
-// stderr is not a TTY it emits no ANSI redraws: it prints line as the
+// emits no ANSI redraws: it prints line as the phase starts, every
-// phase starts, every plainInterval while it runs, and as it ends.
+// plainInterval while it runs, and as it ends.
 //
 // The draws come from a goroutine of their own, so mu guards the fields
 // below it. Every method must be called from the main goroutine. A nil
 // *progress is a valid no-display receiver: every method is a no-op, so
 // batched database flushes during the hash phase can reuse the update
-// phase's helpers without rendering anything, and its writer writes
+// phase's helpers without rendering anything.
-// with no display to clear.
 type progress struct {
-	now   func() time.Time // reads the time
+	width func() int    // reads the terminal's width; nil when not a TTY
-	width func() int       // reads the terminal's width; nil when not a TTY
+	stop  chan struct{} // closed by finish to end the draws
-	stop  chan struct{}    // closed by finish to end the draws
+	done  chan struct{} // closed once the draws have ended
-	done  chan struct{}    // closed once the draws have ended
 
 	mu         sync.Mutex
 	bar        *progressbar.ProgressBar // what the library draws; nil until then
-	widest     int                      // the widest line bar has drawn, in columns
+	withBar    bool                     // bar is the library's bar, not its spinner
 	label      string
-	unit       string
 	total      int64
 	estimate   bool
 	waitingFor string
-	stalledOn  string
 	count      int64
 	start      time.Time // when the phase started, for the elapsed time
-	rateStart  time.Time // when the count started, for the time remaining
+	rateStart  time.Time // when the count started, for the rate
-	lastItem   time.Time // when the last item was completed, or the count started
-	// drawn holds the count at each draw over the last rateWindow, oldest
-	// first; the rate counts from the first. It keeps the draw before the
-	// latest even when that is older, as the line before is when lines
-	// are plainInterval apart and a tick comes late.
-	drawn []drawnCount
 }
 
 // newProgress starts the display of one phase on stderr.
 func newProgress(params progressParams) *progress {
 	if stderrIsTTY() {
-		return startProgress(params, terminalWidth, redrawInterval, time.Now)
+		return startProgress(params, terminalWidth, redrawInterval)
 	}
 
-	return startProgress(params, nil, plainInterval, time.Now)
+	return startProgress(params, nil, plainInterval)
 }
 
 // startProgress shows the phase params describes at once, and again
 // every interval until finish: with the progressbar library on a
 // terminal, whose width each draw reads by calling width, or as a plain
-// line when width is nil. The display reads the time by calling now.
+// line when width is nil.
 func startProgress(params progressParams, width func() int,
-	interval time.Duration, now func() time.Time,
+	interval time.Duration,
 ) *progress {
-	start := now()
+	now := time.Now()
 	p := &progress{
-		now: now, width: width,
+		width: width, stop: make(chan struct{}), done: make(chan struct{}),
-		stop: make(chan struct{}), done: make(chan struct{}),
+		label: params.label, total: params.total, estimate: params.estimate,
-		label: params.label, unit: params.unit, total: params.total,
+		waitingFor: params.waitingFor, start: now, rateStart: now,
-		estimate: params.estimate, waitingFor: params.waitingFor,
-		stalledOn: params.stalledOn, start: start, rateStart: start,
-		lastItem: start, drawn: []drawnCount{{at: start}},
 	}
 
 	// Show the zero state at once: the first item may take minutes,
@@ -202,100 +154,88 @@ func startProgress(params progressParams, width func() int,
 }
 
 // draw shows the phase's progress: on a TTY in place of the line
-// before, and otherwise as a plain line. It first adds the count to
+// before, and otherwise as a plain line.
-// drawn, then drops from drawn the draws older than rateWindow, except
-// the one before this draw.
 func (p *progress) draw() {
 	p.mu.Lock()
 	defer p.mu.Unlock()
 
-	now := p.now()
-
-	p.drawn = append(p.drawn, drawnCount{at: now, count: p.count})
-	for len(p.drawn) > 2 && now.Sub(p.drawn[0].at) > rateWindow {
-		p.drawn = p.drawn[1:]
-	}
-
 	if p.width == nil {
-		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, p.line(now, math.MaxInt, false))
+		text, _ := p.line(math.MaxInt, true)
+		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, text)
 
 		return
 	}
 
 	width := p.width()
-	text := p.line(now, width-spinnerMargin, true)
 
-	// Before each draw the library erases its line with as many spaces as
+	// A phase with an exact total gets the library's bar when its line,
-	// the widest line it has drawn. A display gets a new one when the
+	// without the percent the bar shows, fits whole beside the bar. A
-	// terminal has been made too narrow for that erase, which would wrap
+	// total of 0 leaves the bar nothing to fill.
-	// and leave a line behind at every draw.
+	text, withBar := "", false
-	if p.bar == nil || p.widest >= width {
+	if p.total > 0 && !p.estimate {
-		p.newBar(width)
+		text, withBar = p.line(width-barMargin, false)
+	}
+
+	if !withBar {
+		text, _ = p.line(width-spinnerMargin, true)
+	}
+
+	// The library makes a bar or a spinner. A display that turns from
+	// one to the other, as its line grows or the terminal is resized,
+	// gets a new one.
+	if p.bar == nil || p.withBar != withBar {
+		p.newBar(withBar)
+	}
+
+	if withBar {
+		_ = p.bar.Set64(p.count)
 	}
 
 	p.bar.Describe(text)
-
-	// The library drew the spinner, the text and the spaces around it,
-	// less the terminal's last column, which spinnerMargin keeps clear. A
-	// bar's cells take one column each but more than one byte.
-	p.widest = max(p.widest, utf8.RuneCountInString(text)+spinnerMargin-1)
 }
 
-// newBar has the library make what draw draws: its spinner, followed by
+// newBar has the library make what draw draws: a bar for the phase's
-// the text draw gives it and nothing of the library's own. p.mu must be
+// total when withBar is set, and a spinner when not. Either shows the
-// held.
+// text draw gives it, and nothing of its own besides the spinner, or
-func (p *progress) newBar(width int) {
+// the bar and its percent. p.mu must be held.
+func (p *progress) newBar(withBar bool) {
 	if p.bar != nil {
-		// Erase what was drawn before, short of the last column of a
+		// Erase what was drawn before.
-		// terminal that may have been made narrower since: the library's
+		_ = p.bar.Clear()
-		// own erase is as wide as the widest line it drew.
-		blank := strings.Repeat(" ", min(p.widest, width-1))
-		fmt.Fprint(os.Stderr, "\r"+blank+"\r")
 	}
 
-	// A total of -1 gives the library's spinner.
+	total := int64(-1) // the library's spinner
-	p.bar = progressbar.NewOptions64(-1,
+	if withBar {
+		total = p.total
+	}
+
+	p.bar = progressbar.NewOptions64(total,
 		progressbar.OptionSetWriter(os.Stderr),
+		progressbar.OptionSetWidth(barWidth),
 		progressbar.OptionSpinnerType(spinnerType),
 		// The spinner turns at each draw, not on a timer of the
 		// library's own.
 		progressbar.OptionSetSpinnerChangeInterval(0),
-		// The text carries the elapsed time and the time remaining.
+		// The text carries the elapsed time and the ETA.
 		progressbar.OptionSetElapsedTime(false),
 		progressbar.OptionSetPredictTime(false),
 	)
-	p.widest = 0
+	p.withBar = withBar
-}
-
-// percentBar returns the percent and the bar that end the text of a
-// phase with an exact total, as "  25% |██        |": the bar's
-// barWidth columns fill in proportion to the items done. A count past
-// the total, as when a scan adds records while trees reads them, shows
-// as 100%. p.mu must be held.
-func (p *progress) percentBar() string {
-	done := min(float64(p.count)/float64(p.total), 1)
-	filled := strings.Repeat(barCell, int(done*barWidth))
-
-	return fmt.Sprintf("%4.0f%% |%-*s|", done*percentScale, barWidth, filled)
 }
 
 // setTotal gives a phase that started without a total its total, once
-// it is known. The rate, the time remaining and the time with no item
+// it is known. The rate, and so the ETA, count from then on: the time
-// completed count from then on: the time spent waiting for the total
+// spent waiting for the total says nothing about how fast items go.
-// says nothing about how fast items go.
 func (p *progress) setTotal(total int64) {
 	if p == nil {
 		return
 	}
 
-	now := p.now()
-
 	p.mu.Lock()
 	defer p.mu.Unlock()
 
 	p.total = total
-	p.rateStart, p.lastItem = now, now
+	p.rateStart = time.Now()
-	p.drawn = []drawnCount{{at: now, count: p.count}}
 }
 
 // increment records one completed item, which the display shows at its
@@ -305,13 +245,10 @@ func (p *progress) increment() {
 		return
 	}
 
-	now := p.now()
-
 	p.mu.Lock()
 	defer p.mu.Unlock()
 
 	p.count++
-	p.lastItem = now
 }
 
 // warnf prints a one-line warning to stderr without corrupting the
@@ -336,73 +273,6 @@ func (p *progress) warnf(format string, args ...any) {
 	fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, msg)
 }
 
-// progressWriter writes a phase's output to out, which may be the file
-// the phase's display is drawn on, as stdout is in a plain "sfdupes
-// trees" on a terminal. It holds what is written to it and writes that
-// to out in pieces of about ioBufSize bytes. When out is the file
-// stderr is, each piece is written under the display's lock with the
-// display cleared first, as warnf does for a warning: no draw lands in
-// the middle of a piece, and the next draw shows the display again, on
-// the line below. Every write to it must end with a newline, as a row
-// written with one fmt.Fprintf does, so that each piece ends a line.
-// Flush writes what it holds once the last row is written.
-type progressWriter struct {
-	// p is the display to clear, nil unless out is the file stderr is.
-	p   *progress
-	out io.Writer
-	buf []byte
-}
-
-// writer returns a progressWriter writing to out around p's display.
-// It clears the display and takes its lock only when out is the file
-// stderr is: the same device and inode, as os.SameFile compares them,
-// which is one terminal, or one pipe or file that both are sent to.
-// Otherwise it writes to out without the lock, so the display keeps
-// being drawn while a write to out waits for a slow reader.
-func (p *progress) writer(out io.Writer) *progressWriter {
-	w := &progressWriter{out: out}
-
-	if f, ok := out.(*os.File); ok {
-		outInfo, outErr := f.Stat()
-		errInfo, errErr := os.Stderr.Stat()
-
-		if outErr == nil && errErr == nil && os.SameFile(outInfo, errInfo) {
-			w.p = p
-		}
-	}
-
-	return w
-}
-
-// Write holds b, and writes what it holds to out once that comes to
-// ioBufSize bytes.
-func (w *progressWriter) Write(b []byte) (int, error) {
-	w.buf = append(w.buf, b...)
-	if len(w.buf) < ioBufSize {
-		return len(b), nil
-	}
-
-	return len(b), w.Flush()
-}
-
-// Flush writes what w holds to out. When out is the file stderr is, the
-// display is cleared first and not drawn again until it is written.
-func (w *progressWriter) Flush() error {
-	if w.p != nil {
-		w.p.mu.Lock()
-		defer w.p.mu.Unlock()
-
-		if w.p.bar != nil {
-			_ = w.p.bar.Clear()
-		}
-	}
-
-	_, err := w.out.Write(w.buf)
-	w.buf = w.buf[:0]
-
-	return err
-}
-
 // finish ends the phase's display, drawn once more as the phase ends.
 // A phase stopped short of its total, as an interrupted one is, shows
 // the count it stopped at rather than a full bar.
@@ -423,101 +293,59 @@ func (p *progress) finish() {
 	}
 }
 
-// line formats the phase's progress as of now in at most room columns,
+// line formats the phase's progress in at most room columns, as
-// as
 //
-//	[3/4] hash: [1234/5000] 25%, 300 files/s, elapsed 4s, remain 13s
+//	[3/5] hash: [1234/5000] 25%, 300 files/s, elapsed 4s, eta 13s
 //
-// where "files" is the phase's unit. A phase with no total shows the
+// without the percent when percent is false, as before the library's
-// items done instead, or what it waits for. The rate is that since the
+// bar, which shows its own. A phase with no total shows the items done
-// first draw in drawn, and the time remaining comes from the rate since
+// instead, or what it waits for.
-// the count started. Once no item has been completed for stallTime, the
-// rate, which would read 0, gives way to the word "stalled" and where
-// the phase waits, as "stalled disk/db".
 //
-// When bar is true, as on a terminal, a phase with an exact total ends
+// The phase and its place, the progress, the elapsed time and the ETA
-// the line with its percent and bar, in place of the percent after its
+// are kept whole. A line wider than room leaves out the rate, or what
-// count. A total of 0 leaves the bar nothing to fill.
+// the phase waits for; only if it is still wider is it cut at room, and
-//
+// line reports that it does not fit. Every part is ASCII, so its length
-// The phase and its place, the progress, the elapsed time and the time
+// is its width in columns. p.mu must be held.
-// remaining are kept whole. A line wider than room first leaves out the
+func (p *progress) line(room int, percent bool) (string, bool) {
-// rate, the words of a stalled phase, or what the phase waits for. Next
+	elapsed := time.Since(p.start).Round(time.Second)
-// it leaves out the bar. Only if it is still wider is it cut at room.
-// Every part but the bar is ASCII, so its length is its width in
-// columns. p.mu must be held.
-func (p *progress) line(now time.Time, room int, bar bool) string {
-	elapsed := now.Sub(p.start).Round(time.Second)
 
 	// head and tail hold the parts kept whole; extra, between them, is
 	// the part left out.
 	var head, extra, tail string
 
 	if p.total < 0 && p.waitingFor != "" {
-		head, extra = p.label+": ", p.waitingFor+", "
+		head, extra = p.label+": ", p.waitingFor
-		tail = fmt.Sprintf("elapsed %s, remain unknown", elapsed)
+		tail = fmt.Sprintf("elapsed %s, eta unknown", elapsed)
 	} else {
-		since := p.drawn[0]
+		rate := 0.0
-		rate := perSecond(p.count-since.count, now.Sub(since.at))
+		if s := time.Since(p.rateStart).Seconds(); s > 0 {
-		average := perSecond(p.count, now.Sub(p.rateStart))
+			rate = float64(p.count) / s
-
-		head = p.label + ": " + p.itemsDone(true) + ", "
-		extra = fmt.Sprintf("%.0f %s/s, ", rate, p.unit)
-		tail = fmt.Sprintf("elapsed %s, remain %s", elapsed, p.remain(average))
-
-		if now.Sub(p.lastItem) >= stallTime {
-			extra = "stalled " + p.stalledOn + ", "
-		}
-	}
-
-	if bar && p.total > 0 && !p.estimate {
-		// Beside the bar, which shows the percent, the count shows none.
-		// The line is padded to the room the bar leaves it, so the bar
-		// stays at room's right edge however long the line is.
-		beside := room - barColumns
-		barHead := p.label + ": " + p.itemsDone(false) + ", "
-
-		switch {
-		case len(barHead+extra+tail) <= beside:
-			return fmt.Sprintf("%-*s%s", beside, barHead+extra+tail,
-				p.percentBar())
-		case len(barHead+tail) <= beside:
-			return fmt.Sprintf("%-*s%s", beside, barHead+tail, p.percentBar())
 		}
 
-		// The bar gives way. The rate, or the words of a stalled phase,
+		head = p.label + ": " + p.itemsDone(percent) + ", "
-		// gave way before it and stay out.
+		extra = fmt.Sprintf("%.0f files/s", rate)
-		extra = ""
+		tail = fmt.Sprintf("elapsed %s, eta %s", elapsed, p.eta(rate))
 	}
 
-	full, kept := head+extra+tail, head+tail
+	full, kept := head+extra+", "+tail, head+tail
 
 	switch {
 	case len(full) <= room:
-		return full
+		return full, true
 	case len(kept) <= room:
-		return kept
+		return kept, true
 	}
 
-	return kept[:max(room, 0)]
+	return kept[:max(room, 0)], false
-}
-
-// perSecond returns count items over d as items a second, or 0 when no
-// time has passed.
-func perSecond(count int64, d time.Duration) float64 {
-	if d <= 0 {
-		return 0
-	}
-
-	return float64(count) / d.Seconds()
 }
 
 // itemsDone formats the items done, as "[1234/5000] 25%", with "~"
 // before a total that is an estimate and without the percent when
-// percent is false, or as "1234 files", in the phase's unit, when the
+// percent is false, or as "1234 files" when the phase has no total.
-// phase has no total. p.mu must be held.
+// p.mu must be held.
 func (p *progress) itemsDone(percent bool) string {
 	if p.total < 0 {
-		return fmt.Sprintf("%d %s", p.count, p.unit)
+		return fmt.Sprintf("%d files", p.count)
 	}
 
 	approx := ""
@@ -538,10 +366,10 @@ func (p *progress) itemsDone(percent bool) string {
 	return fmt.Sprintf("%s %.0f%%", done, pct)
 }
 
-// remain returns the time the phase has left at rate items a second, or
+// eta returns the time the phase has left at rate items a second, or
 // "unknown": with no total, before the first item, and once the count
 // passes an estimate. p.mu must be held.
-func (p *progress) remain(rate float64) string {
+func (p *progress) eta(rate float64) string {
 	switch {
 	case p.total < 0, p.estimate && p.count > p.total:
 		return "unknown"
@@ -551,8 +379,8 @@ func (p *progress) remain(rate float64) string {
 		return "unknown"
 	}
 
-	left := time.Duration(
+	remaining := time.Duration(
 		float64(p.total-p.count) / rate * float64(time.Second))
 
-	return left.Round(time.Second).String()
+	return remaining.Round(time.Second).String()
 }

report.go

@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"bufio"
 	"context"
-	"crypto/sha256"
-	"database/sql"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"os"
-	"slices"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 )
@@ -25,31 +23,19 @@ const minGroupSize = 2
 type scanRec struct {
 	size    int64
 	mtime   time.Time
-	head    [sha256.Size]byte
+	head    string
-	tail    [sha256.Size]byte
+	tail    string
-	content [sha256.Size]byte
+	content string
 	path    string
 }
 
-// reportPhase names one phase of report with its place among all of
-// them, as "[2/2] read", for the phase's progress display. The list
-// here is the one place the phases are counted.
-func reportPhase(name string) string {
-	return phaseLabel([]string{openPhase, "read"}, name)
-}
-
 // runReport implements the report subcommand: it prints the file-level
-// duplicates report as TSV on stdout. It never touches the scanned
+// duplicates report as TSV on stdout. SQLite groups and orders the
-// filesystem; its only I/O is the database, stdout, and stderr. It
+// records, and each row is written as it is read, so no group is held
-// names the database on stderr before it opens it. Any database
+// in memory. It never touches the scanned filesystem; its only I/O is
+// the database (with SQLite's temporary sort file), stdout, and stderr.
+// It names the database on stderr before it opens it. Any database
 // problem, including a missing database, is fatal.
-//
-// The work runs in two phases, each under a progress display of its
-// own on stderr: open (open the database) and read (count the records,
-// then read them in signature order, writing each size's duplicate
-// groups to stdout once that size is read; see readReport). Each
-// display ends before the next phase starts, and before an error is
-// returned to be printed.
 func runReport(ctx context.Context, stdout io.Writer) error {
 	dbPath, source, err := databasePath()
 	if err != nil {
@@ -59,190 +45,65 @@ func runReport(ctx context.Context, stdout io.Writer) error {
 	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "report: database %s (%s)\n",
 		escapePath(dbPath), source)
 
-	// Opening can wait on a busy database for as long as the busy
-	// timeout.
-	prog := newProgress(progressParams{
-		label: reportPhase(openPhase), total: -1,
-		waitingFor: openingDatabase,
-	})
 	db, err := openReportDatabase(ctx, dbPath)
-
-	prog.finish()
-
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 
 	defer func() { _ = db.Close() }()
 
-	// The read phase writes the report to stdout while it reads the
+	out := bufio.NewWriterSize(stdout, ioBufSize)
-	// records, so it may wait on either.
-	prog = newProgress(progressParams{
-		label: reportPhase("read"), unit: "records", total: -1,
-		waitingFor: countingRecords, stalledOn: "db/out",
-	})
-	report, err := readReport(ctx, db, dbPath, stdout, prog)
 
-	prog.finish()
+	_, err = fmt.Fprintln(out, "first\tdupe\tsize")
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("write stdout: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	var (
+		groups, dupeFiles int
+		reclaimable       int64
+		writeErr          error
+	)
+
+	records, err := loadDupeRows(ctx, db,
+		func(first, path string, size int64) error {
+			// A group's first path is its first row; every other
+			// path is a dupe.
+			if path == first {
+				groups++
+
+				return nil
+			}
+
+			_, writeErr = fmt.Fprintf(out, "%s\t%s\t%d\n",
+				escapePath(first), escapePath(path), size)
+			dupeFiles++
+			reclaimable += size
+
+			return writeErr
+		})
+
+	if writeErr != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("write stdout: %w", writeErr)
+	}
 
 	if err != nil {
-		return err
+		return fmt.Errorf("database %s: %w", dbPath, err)
+	}
+
+	err = out.Flush()
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("write stdout: %w", err)
 	}
 
 	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr,
 		"report: %d records read, %d duplicate groups, %d dupe files, "+
 			"%s reclaimable\n",
-		report.records, report.dupeGroups, report.dupeFiles,
+		records, groups, dupeFiles, humanBytes(reclaimable))
-		humanBytes(report.reclaimable))
 
 	return nil
 }
 
-// readReport gives prog the number of records in db, the database at
-// dbPath, as its total, then reads every record in signature order,
-// counting each on prog, and writes the report to stdout: the header
-// line, then the rows of each size's duplicate groups once that size is
-// read. stdout may be the terminal prog is drawn on, so the lines go
-// through prog's writer. It returns what it wrote, with the totals for
-// the summary line.
-func readReport(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB, dbPath string,
-	stdout io.Writer, prog *progress,
-) (*reportWriter, error) {
-	out := prog.writer(stdout)
-	report := &reportWriter{out: out}
-
-	_, err := fmt.Fprintln(out, "first\tdupe\tsize")
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("write stdout: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	var writeErr error
-
-	err = loadSignatureRows(ctx, db, prog.setTotal, func(r scanRec) error {
-		prog.increment()
-
-		writeErr = report.add(r)
-
-		return writeErr
-	})
-
-	if writeErr != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("write stdout: %w", writeErr)
-	}
-
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("database %s: %w", dbPath, err)
-	}
-
-	err = report.finish()
-	if err == nil {
-		err = out.Flush()
-	}
-
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("write stdout: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	return report, nil
-}
-
-// reportWriter writes the report's rows to out from the records, added
-// in signature order, largest size first, as loadSignatureRows reads
-// them. The records sharing a signature come together, and so do the
-// records of one size, so it holds only the duplicate groups of the
-// size being read, and writes them, ordered by first path, once a
-// record of a smaller size comes. It counts what the summary line
-// reports.
-type reportWriter struct {
-	out io.Writer
-
-	sig    scanRec    // the signature being read; its path is not used
-	paths  []string   // the paths read so far with sig
-	groups [][]string // the duplicate groups of sig.size, each sorted
-
-	records, dupeGroups, dupeFiles int
-	reclaimable                    int64
-}
-
-// add takes the next record. One with the signature being read joins
-// its paths; any other ends them, and one of a smaller size first
-// writes the groups of the size before.
-func (w *reportWriter) add(r scanRec) error {
-	w.records++
-
-	if r.size == w.sig.size && r.head == w.sig.head &&
-		r.tail == w.sig.tail && r.content == w.sig.content {
-		w.paths = append(w.paths, r.path)
-
-		return nil
-	}
-
-	w.endGroup()
-
-	if r.size != w.sig.size {
-		err := w.writeGroups()
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-	}
-
-	w.sig = r
-	w.paths = append(w.paths, r.path)
-
-	return nil
-}
-
-// endGroup ends the paths read with w.sig: two or more are a duplicate
-// group, held with its paths sorted until writeGroups writes it.
-func (w *reportWriter) endGroup() {
-	if len(w.paths) < minGroupSize {
-		// A path with no duplicate is dropped, and its slice reused.
-		w.paths = w.paths[:0]
-
-		return
-	}
-
-	slices.Sort(w.paths)
-	w.groups = append(w.groups, w.paths)
-	w.paths = nil
-}
-
-// writeGroups writes the duplicate groups held, all of size w.sig.size,
-// ordered by first path: for each group, a row for every path but the
-// first. No two groups share a first path, since no two records share
-// a path.
-func (w *reportWriter) writeGroups() error {
-	slices.SortFunc(w.groups, func(a, b []string) int {
-		return strings.Compare(a[0], b[0])
-	})
-
-	for _, g := range w.groups {
-		for _, path := range g[1:] {
-			_, err := fmt.Fprintf(w.out, "%s\t%s\t%d\n",
-				escapePath(g[0]), escapePath(path), w.sig.size)
-			if err != nil {
-				return err
-			}
-
-			w.dupeFiles++
-			w.reclaimable += w.sig.size
-		}
-
-		w.dupeGroups++
-	}
-
-	w.groups = nil
-
-	return nil
-}
-
-// finish writes the groups of the last size read.
-func (w *reportWriter) finish() error {
-	w.endGroup()
-
-	return w.writeGroups()
-}
-
 // escapePath returns a path as it is written in a report column (README
 // "Report output format"): a backslash, tab, newline or carriage return
 // becomes \\, \t, \n or \r, and every other byte is kept as it is.

report_test.go

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
-	"crypto/sha256"
 	"database/sql"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
@@ -10,7 +9,6 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"slices"
-	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
@@ -19,32 +17,18 @@ import (
 // awkwardDir is a directory name holding every byte the reports escape.
 const awkwardDir = "/d/\tone\ntwo\rthree\\four"
 
-// testHash returns a stand-in hash for a test record: the bytes of s,
-// then zeros. Stand-ins sort as their strings do, so a test can choose
-// the order in which report reads its records.
-func testHash(s string) [sha256.Size]byte {
-	var h [sha256.Size]byte
-
-	copy(h[:], s)
-
-	return h
-}
-
 // awkwardPairRecs is a duplicate pair in sibling directories /d/A and
 // awkwardDir. A raw tab sorts before "A" but its escaped form `\t`
 // sorts after it, so awkwardDir coming first shows that sorting uses
 // the raw path.
 func awkwardPairRecs() []scanRec {
-	h, tl, c := testHash("h"), testHash("t"), testHash("c")
-
 	return []scanRec{
-		{size: 5, head: h, tail: tl, content: c, path: "/d/A/f"},
+		{size: 5, head: "h", tail: "t", content: "c", path: "/d/A/f"},
-		{size: 5, head: h, tail: tl, content: c, path: awkwardDir + "/f"},
+		{size: 5, head: "h", tail: "t", content: "c", path: awkwardDir + "/f"},
 	}
 }
 
-// seedDatabase writes recs into a fresh database, closes it as scan
+// seedDatabase writes recs into a fresh database and returns its path.
-// does, out of WAL mode, and returns its path.
 func seedDatabase(t *testing.T, recs []scanRec) string {
 	t.Helper()
 
@@ -60,7 +44,10 @@ func seedDatabase(t *testing.T, recs []scanRec) string {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 
-	closeScanDatabase(t.Context(), db, path)
+	err = db.Close()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
 
 	return path
 }
@@ -73,39 +60,25 @@ type dupeGroup struct {
 }
 
 // dupeGroups returns the duplicate groups report reads from db, in
-// report order, from the rows it writes: a group's rows come together,
+// report order.
-// each naming the group's first path.
 func dupeGroups(t *testing.T, db *sql.DB) []dupeGroup {
 	t.Helper()
 
-	var out bytes.Buffer
-
-	_, err := readReport(t.Context(), db, "", &out, nil)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
 	var groups []dupeGroup
 
-	rows := strings.Split(strings.TrimSuffix(out.String(), "\n"), "\n")
+	_, err := loadDupeRows(t.Context(), db,
-	for _, row := range rows[1:] { // after the header
+		func(first, path string, size int64) error {
-		fields := strings.Split(row, "\t")
+			if path == first {
-		if len(fields) != 3 {
+				groups = append(groups, dupeGroup{size: size})
-			t.Fatalf("row %q, want first, dupe and size", row)
+			}
-		}
 
-		size, err := strconv.ParseInt(fields[2], 10, 64)
+			g := &groups[len(groups)-1]
-		if err != nil {
+			g.paths = append(g.paths, path)
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
 
-		if len(groups) == 0 || groups[len(groups)-1].paths[0] != fields[0] {
+			return nil
-			groups = append(groups,
+		})
-				dupeGroup{size: size, paths: []string{fields[0]}})
+	if err != nil {
-		}
+		t.Fatal(err)
-
-		g := &groups[len(groups)-1]
-		g.paths = append(g.paths, fields[1])
 	}
 
 	return groups
@@ -145,160 +118,38 @@ func TestRunReportEscapesPaths(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestReportStdoutFailsWhileReading(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
+	// Each row holds two paths longer than dir, so the report is more
-
+	// than twice the stdout buffer and stdout fails while rows are
-	// Every two records are a duplicate pair of a size of their own, and
+	// still being read, not at the final flush.
-	// a pair's row is written once a smaller size is read. Each row
-	// holds two paths longer than dir, so the rows come to more than
-	// twice the stdout buffer, and stdout fails while records are still
-	// being read, not once every record is.
 	dir := "/" + strings.Repeat("d", 4096)
 
-	recs := make([]scanRec, 2*ioBufSize/len(dir))
+	recs := make([]scanRec, ioBufSize/len(dir))
 	for i := range recs {
 		recs[i] = scanRec{
-			size: int64(i/2) + 1, head: testHash("h"), tail: testHash("t"),
+			size: 1, head: "h", tail: "t", content: "c",
-			content: testHash("c"), path: fmt.Sprintf("%s/%d", dir, i),
+			path: fmt.Sprintf("%s/%d", dir, i),
 		}
 	}
 
-	db := openTestDB(t)
+	t.Setenv(databaseEnv, seedDatabase(t, recs))
 
-	err := applyChanges(t.Context(), db, recs, nil, nil)
+	err := runReport(t.Context(), failingWriter{})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	// Counts the records read, and draws nothing.
-	prog := &progress{now: time.Now}
-
-	_, err = readReport(t.Context(), db, "", failingWriter{}, prog)
 	if !errors.Is(err, errWriteFailed) ||
 		!strings.HasPrefix(err.Error(), "write stdout: ") {
 		t.Errorf("error = %v, want write stdout: %v", err, errWriteFailed)
 	}
-
-	if prog.count >= int64(len(recs)) {
-		t.Errorf("stdout failed after all %d records were read, want it "+
-			"to stop the read", prog.count)
-	}
-}
-
-// reportOpenLine is the plain line of report's open phase when it opens
-// the database at once; it prints it as the phase starts and as it ends.
-const reportOpenLine = "[1/2] open: opening the database, elapsed 0s, " +
-	"remain unknown"
-
-// smokeReport is report's stdout for the smoke-test records.
-const smokeReport = "first\tdupe\tsize\n" +
-	"/d/t1/f1\t/d/t2/f1\t3000\n" +
-	"/d/t1/f1\t/d/t3/f1\t3000\n" +
-	"/d/t1/sub/f2\t/d/t2/sub/f2\t100\n" +
-	"/d/t1/sub/f2\t/d/t3/sub/f2renamed\t100\n"
-
-// TestRunReportProgressNamesEachPhase runs report on the smoke-test
-// records with stderr not a terminal, and checks every line it prints
-// there. After the line naming the database, each phase prints a line
-// naming it with its place among the two as it starts and another as
-// it ends; read counts the 6 records before it reads them. The summary
-// comes last, and stdout holds the report alone.
-func TestRunReportProgressNamesEachPhase(t *testing.T) {
-	path := seedDatabase(t, smokeTreeRecs())
-	t.Setenv(databaseEnv, path)
-
-	stderr := captureStderr(t)
-
-	var stdout bytes.Buffer
-
-	code := run([]string{cmdReport}, &stdout, os.Stderr)
-	if code != exitOK {
-		t.Fatalf("run(report) = %d, want %d; stderr: %s",
-			code, exitOK, stderr())
-	}
-
-	if got := stdout.String(); got != smokeReport {
-		t.Errorf("stdout = %q, want %q", got, smokeReport)
-	}
-
-	// How each line starts; the rate at the end of a phase varies.
-	want := []string{
-		"report: database " + path + " (from " + databaseEnv + ")",
-		reportOpenLine,
-		reportOpenLine,
-		"[2/2] read: counting the records, elapsed 0s, remain unknown",
-		"[2/2] read: [6/6] 100%, ",
-		"report: 6 records read, 2 duplicate groups, 4 dupe files, " +
-			"6.1 KiB reclaimable",
-	}
-
-	lines := strings.Split(strings.TrimSuffix(stderr(), "\n"), "\n")
-	if len(lines) != len(want) {
-		t.Fatalf("stderr lines = %q, want %d lines starting %q",
-			lines, len(want), want)
-	}
-
-	for i := range want {
-		if !strings.HasPrefix(lines[i], want[i]) {
-			t.Errorf("stderr line %d = %q, want it to start %q",
-				i+1, lines[i], want[i])
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// TestReadReportOnTerminal writes the smoke-test report to the terminal
-// its read phase's display is drawn on, as a plain "sfdupes report"
-// does: the terminal must show the header and every row whole, each on
-// a line of its own.
-//
-//nolint:paralleltest // captureStderr replaces the process-wide os.Stderr
-func TestReadReportOnTerminal(t *testing.T) {
-	stderr := captureStderr(t)
-	db := openTestDB(t)
-
-	err := applyChanges(t.Context(), db, smokeTreeRecs(), nil, nil)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	// No timed draws: the display is drawn as it starts and as it ends.
-	p := startProgress(progressParams{
-		label: reportPhase("read"), unit: "records", total: -1,
-		waitingFor: countingRecords,
-	}, terminalWidth, time.Hour, time.Now)
-
-	_, err = readReport(t.Context(), db, "", os.Stderr, p)
-
-	p.finish()
-
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	// A terminal shows each line as the text after its last carriage
-	// return.
-	var shown []string
-
-	for line := range strings.SplitSeq(stderr(), "\n") {
-		shown = append(shown, line[strings.LastIndex(line, "\r")+1:])
-	}
-
-	want := strings.Split(strings.TrimSuffix(smokeReport, "\n"), "\n")
-	if len(shown) < len(want) || !slices.Equal(shown[:len(want)], want) {
-		t.Errorf("terminal shows lines %q, want %q first", shown, want)
-	}
 }
 
 func TestRunReportsIgnoreInsertionOrder(t *testing.T) {
 	// README §Constraints: identical database contents give identical
 	// output, whatever order the records were inserted in.
-	a, b := testHash("a"), testHash("b")
-
 	recs := append(smokeTreeRecs(), awkwardPairRecs()...)
 	recs = append(recs,
-		scanRec{size: 50, head: b, tail: b, content: b, path: "/y/2"},
+		scanRec{size: 50, head: "b", tail: "b", content: "b", path: "/y/2"},
-		scanRec{size: 50, head: b, tail: b, content: b, path: "/y/1"},
+		scanRec{size: 50, head: "b", tail: "b", content: "b", path: "/y/1"},
-		scanRec{size: 50, head: a, tail: a, content: a, path: "/x/2"},
+		scanRec{size: 50, head: "a", tail: "a", content: "a", path: "/x/2"},
-		scanRec{size: 50, head: a, tail: a, content: a, path: "/x/1"},
+		scanRec{size: 50, head: "a", tail: "a", content: "a", path: "/x/1"},
+		scanRec{size: 50, path: "/x/unhashed"},
 	)
 
 	reversed := slices.Clone(recs)
@@ -401,19 +252,16 @@ func TestWarnfEscapes(t *testing.T) {
 func TestDupeGroups(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
-	h, tl, c := testHash("h"), testHash("t"), testHash("c")
-	bigH, bigT, bigC := testHash("H"), testHash("T"), testHash("C")
-	u := testHash("u")
 	recs := []scanRec{
-		{size: 100, head: h, tail: tl, content: c, path: "/z/b"},
+		{size: 100, head: "h", tail: "t", content: "c", path: "/z/b"},
-		{size: 100, head: h, tail: tl, content: c, path: "/z/a"},
+		{size: 100, head: "h", tail: "t", content: "c", path: "/z/a"},
-		{size: 100, head: h, tail: tl, content: c, path: "/z/c"},
+		{size: 100, head: "h", tail: "t", content: "c", path: "/z/c"},
-		{size: 4000, head: bigH, tail: bigT, content: bigC, path: "/big/2"},
+		{size: 4000, head: "H", tail: "T", content: "C", path: "/big/2"},
-		{size: 4000, head: bigH, tail: bigT, content: bigC, path: "/big/1"},
+		{size: 4000, head: "H", tail: "T", content: "C", path: "/big/1"},
 		// Same size as the /z group but a different head hash.
-		{size: 100, head: testHash("other"), tail: tl, content: c, path: "/z/d"},
+		{size: 100, head: "other", tail: "t", content: "c", path: "/z/d"},
 		// A singleton signature must not form a group.
-		{size: 7, head: u, tail: u, content: u, path: "/lonely"},
+		{size: 7, head: "u", tail: "u", content: "u", path: "/lonely"},
 	}
 
 	groups := dupeGroupsOf(t, recs)
@@ -437,13 +285,16 @@ func TestDupeGroups(t *testing.T) {
 func TestDupeGroupsContentSeparates(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
-	// Same size, head, and tail: /b differs from the others only in its
+	// Same size, head, and tail, but different content hashes: the final
-	// content hash, so it joins no group, while /a and /c group.
+	// rung keeps them apart, so no group forms. Matching content groups.
-	h, tl := testHash("h"), testHash("t")
+	// Records without a content hash never group, not even with each
+	// other.
 	recs := []scanRec{
-		{size: 100, head: h, tail: tl, content: testHash("c1"), path: "/a"},
+		{size: 100, head: "h", tail: "t", content: "c1", path: "/a"},
-		{size: 100, head: h, tail: tl, content: testHash("c2"), path: "/b"},
+		{size: 100, head: "h", tail: "t", content: "c2", path: "/b"},
-		{size: 100, head: h, tail: tl, content: testHash("c1"), path: "/c"},
+		{size: 100, head: "h", tail: "t", content: "c1", path: "/c"},
+		{size: 100, head: "h", tail: "t", path: "/d"},
+		{size: 100, head: "h", tail: "t", path: "/e"},
 	}
 
 	groups := dupeGroupsOf(t, recs)
@@ -462,15 +313,14 @@ func TestDupeGroupsMtimeExcluded(t *testing.T) {
 
 	// mtime is informational only; records differing only in mtime
 	// still group together.
-	h, tl, c := testHash("h"), testHash("t"), testHash("c")
 	recs := []scanRec{
 		{
-			size: 9, mtime: time.Unix(100, 0), head: h, tail: tl,
+			size: 9, mtime: time.Unix(100, 0), head: "h", tail: "t",
-			content: c, path: "/m/1",
+			content: "c", path: "/m/1",
 		},
 		{
-			size: 9, mtime: time.Unix(200, 0), head: h, tail: tl,
+			size: 9, mtime: time.Unix(200, 0), head: "h", tail: "t",
-			content: c, path: "/m/2",
+			content: "c", path: "/m/2",
 		},
 	}
 
@@ -485,12 +335,11 @@ func TestDupeGroupsTieBreak(t *testing.T) {
 
 	// The hashes sort opposite to the first paths, so ordering the
 	// groups by hash instead of by first path fails this test.
-	a, b := testHash("a"), testHash("b")
 	recs := []scanRec{
-		{size: 50, head: a, tail: a, content: a, path: "/beta/2"},
+		{size: 50, head: "a", tail: "a", content: "a", path: "/beta/2"},
-		{size: 50, head: a, tail: a, content: a, path: "/beta/1"},
+		{size: 50, head: "a", tail: "a", content: "a", path: "/beta/1"},
-		{size: 50, head: b, tail: b, content: b, path: "/alpha/2"},
+		{size: 50, head: "b", tail: "b", content: "b", path: "/alpha/2"},
-		{size: 50, head: b, tail: b, content: b, path: "/alpha/1"},
+		{size: 50, head: "b", tail: "b", content: "b", path: "/alpha/1"},
 	}
 
 	groups := dupeGroupsOf(t, recs)
@@ -505,47 +354,14 @@ func TestDupeGroupsTieBreak(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestDupeGroupsOrderedByFirstPath(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	// report reads the groups of size 50 in signature order, here /a,
-	// /z, /k, which is neither the order of their first paths nor its
-	// reverse, and must write them ordered by first path. The group of
-	// size 7 comes after them all, though its first path sorts first.
-	a, b, c, d := testHash("a"), testHash("b"), testHash("c"), testHash("d")
-	recs := []scanRec{
-		{size: 50, head: a, tail: a, content: a, path: "/k/2"},
-		{size: 50, head: a, tail: a, content: a, path: "/k/1"},
-		{size: 50, head: b, tail: b, content: b, path: "/z/1"},
-		{size: 50, head: b, tail: b, content: b, path: "/z/2"},
-		{size: 50, head: c, tail: c, content: c, path: "/a/2"},
-		{size: 50, head: c, tail: c, content: c, path: "/a/1"},
-		{size: 7, head: d, tail: d, content: d, path: "/0/2"},
-		{size: 7, head: d, tail: d, content: d, path: "/0/1"},
-	}
-
-	groups := dupeGroupsOf(t, recs)
-
-	got := make([]string, 0, len(groups))
-	for _, g := range groups {
-		got = append(got, g.paths[0])
-	}
-
-	want := []string{"/a/1", "/k/1", "/z/1", "/0/1"}
-	if !slices.Equal(got, want) {
-		t.Errorf("groups' first paths = %q, want %q", got, want)
-	}
-}
-
 func TestDupeGroupsDeterministic(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
-	a, b := testHash("a"), testHash("b")
 	recs := []scanRec{
-		{size: 1, head: a, tail: a, content: a, path: "/p/1"},
+		{size: 1, head: "a", tail: "a", content: "a", path: "/p/1"},
-		{size: 1, head: a, tail: a, content: a, path: "/p/2"},
+		{size: 1, head: "a", tail: "a", content: "a", path: "/p/2"},
-		{size: 2, head: b, tail: b, content: b, path: "/q/1"},
+		{size: 2, head: "b", tail: "b", content: "b", path: "/q/1"},
-		{size: 2, head: b, tail: b, content: b, path: "/q/2"},
+		{size: 2, head: "b", tail: "b", content: "b", path: "/q/2"},
 	}
 
 	forward := dupeGroupsOf(t, recs)

script/cibuild

@@ -2,12 +2,11 @@
 # script/cibuild: run the CI build. It bootstraps first: a CI runner
 # checks out and runs this and nothing else, and script/fmt-check runs
 # the formatter on the host, which a pristine checkout cannot do.
-# A new CACHEBUST value reruns every RUN step after the ARG CACHEBUST
+# A new CACHEBUST value reruns every RUN step, since a cached gate phase
-# line, since a cached gate phase is a check that did not run; unlike
+# is a check that did not run; unlike --no-cache, it keeps Go's build cache.
-# --no-cache, it keeps the layers above that line and the cache mounts.
 # This relies on every stage of the Dockerfile declaring ARG CACHEBUST
-# before every step that lints, tests or compiles; a stage without that
+# first; a stage without that line is served from cache on an unchanged
-# line is served from cache on an unchanged tree, with no warning.
+# tree, with no warning.
 set -eu
 
 SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd -P)"

script/docker

@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # script/docker: build the Docker image tagged with the project name.
 # Identical in all repos; the tag comes from script/projectname.
-# A new CACHEBUST value reruns every RUN step after the ARG CACHEBUST
+# A new CACHEBUST value reruns every RUN step, since a cached gate phase
-# line, since a cached gate phase is a check that did not run; unlike
+# is a check that did not run; unlike --no-cache, it keeps Go's build cache.
-# --no-cache, it keeps the layers above that line and the cache mounts.
 # This relies on every stage of the Dockerfile declaring ARG CACHEBUST
-# before every step that lints, tests or compiles; a stage without that
+# first; a stage without that line is served from cache on an unchanged
-# line is served from cache on an unchanged tree, with no warning.
+# tree, with no warning.
 set -eu
 
 SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd -P)"

script/lint

@@ -5,13 +5,11 @@
 # make its answer untrustworthy.
 #
 # The phase is not the last stage in the file, so it is built only when
-# --target names it. A new CACHEBUST value reruns every RUN step after
+# --target names it. A new CACHEBUST value reruns every RUN step, since
-# the ARG CACHEBUST line, since a cached lint layer is a lint that did
+# a cached lint layer is a lint that did not run; unlike --no-cache, it
-# not run; unlike --no-cache, it keeps the layers above that line and
+# keeps Go's build cache. This relies on every stage of the Dockerfile
-# the cache mounts. This relies on every stage of the Dockerfile
+# declaring ARG CACHEBUST first; a stage without that line is served
-# declaring ARG CACHEBUST before every step that lints, tests or
+# from cache on an unchanged tree, with no warning.
-# compiles; a stage without that line is served from cache on an
-# unchanged tree, with no warning.
 # --output type=cacheonly writes no image, since nothing uses one.
 set -eu
 

script/test

@@ -3,12 +3,11 @@
 # and this builds that phase alone, on the same terms as script/lint:
 # --target because a phase that is not the last stage is built only when
 # named, and a new CACHEBUST value because a cached test layer is a test
-# that did not run; unlike --no-cache, it keeps the layers above the ARG
+# that did not run; unlike --no-cache, it keeps Go's build cache. This
-# CACHEBUST line and the cache mounts. This relies on every stage of the
+# relies on every stage of the Dockerfile declaring ARG CACHEBUST first;
-# Dockerfile declaring ARG CACHEBUST before every step that lints, tests
+# a stage without that line is served from cache on an unchanged tree,
-# or compiles; a stage without that line is served from cache on an
+# with no warning. --output type=cacheonly writes no image, since
-# unchanged tree, with no warning. --output type=cacheonly writes no
+# nothing uses one.
-# image, since nothing uses one.
 set -eu
 
 SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd -P)"

trees.go

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"bufio"
 	"context"
 	"crypto/sha256"
-	"database/sql"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"os"
@@ -24,13 +24,6 @@ type treeNode struct {
 	totalSize int64
 }
 
-// treesPhase names one phase of trees with its place among all of them,
-// as "[2/4] read", for the phase's progress display. The list here is
-// the one place the phases are counted.
-func treesPhase(name string) string {
-	return phaseLabel([]string{openPhase, "read", "group", "write"}, name)
-}
-
 // runTrees implements the trees subcommand: it reads every record from
 // the database in path order, reconstructs the directory hierarchy from
 // the record paths, computes a Merkle-style digest per directory, and
@@ -38,13 +31,6 @@ func treesPhase(name string) string {
 // touches the scanned filesystem; its only I/O is the database, stdout,
 // and stderr. It names the database on stderr before it opens it. Any
 // database problem, including a missing database, is fatal.
-//
-// The work runs in four phases, each under a progress display of its
-// own on stderr: open (open the database), read (count the records,
-// then read them into the hierarchy), group (group the directories by
-// digest) and write (write the groups to stdout). Each display ends
-// before the next phase starts, and before an error is returned to be
-// printed.
 func runTrees(ctx context.Context, stdout io.Writer) error {
 	dbPath, source, err := databasePath()
 	if err != nil {
@@ -54,102 +40,34 @@ func runTrees(ctx context.Context, stdout io.Writer) error {
 	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "trees: database %s (%s)\n",
 		escapePath(dbPath), source)
 
-	// Opening can wait on a busy database for as long as the busy
-	// timeout.
-	prog := newProgress(progressParams{
-		label: treesPhase(openPhase), total: -1,
-		waitingFor: openingDatabase,
-	})
 	db, err := openReportDatabase(ctx, dbPath)
-
-	prog.finish()
-
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 
 	defer func() { _ = db.Close() }()
 
-	prog = newProgress(progressParams{
+	records := 0
-		label: treesPhase("read"), unit: "records", total: -1,
+	tree := newTreeBuilder()
-		waitingFor: countingRecords, stalledOn: "db",
+
+	err = loadFileRows(ctx, db, func(r scanRec) {
+		records++
+
+		tree.add(r)
 	})
-	records, super, allDirs, err := readTree(ctx, db, prog)
-
-	prog.finish()
-
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("database %s: %w", dbPath, err)
 	}
 
-	// Grouping works in memory, so it waits on nothing but the
-	// processor.
-	prog = newProgress(progressParams{
-		label: treesPhase("group"), unit: "directories",
-		total: int64(len(allDirs)), stalledOn: "cpu",
-	})
-	dupes := collectTreeGroups(allDirs, super, prog)
-
-	prog.finish()
-
-	prog = newProgress(progressParams{
-		label: treesPhase("write"), unit: "groups", total: int64(len(dupes)),
-		stalledOn: "out",
-	})
-	dupeTrees, reclaimable, err := writeTreeGroups(stdout, dupes, prog)
-
-	prog.finish()
-
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr,
-		"trees: %d records read, %d duplicate tree groups, %d dupe trees, "+
-			"%s reclaimable\n",
-		records, len(dupes), dupeTrees, humanBytes(reclaimable))
-
-	return nil
-}
-
-// readTree gives prog the number of records in db as its total, then
-// reads every record in path order into the directory hierarchy,
-// counting each on prog. It returns the number of records read, the
-// super-root and every directory.
-func readTree(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB,
-	prog *progress,
-) (int, *treeNode, []*treeNode, error) {
-	records := 0
-	tree := newTreeBuilder()
-
-	err := loadFileRows(ctx, db, prog.setTotal, func(r scanRec) {
-		records++
-
-		prog.increment()
-		tree.add(r)
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		return 0, nil, nil, err
-	}
-
 	super, allDirs := tree.finish()
 
-	return records, super, allDirs, nil
+	dupes := collectTreeGroups(allDirs, super)
-}
 
-// writeTreeGroups writes dupes to stdout as TSV, a header line and then
+	out := bufio.NewWriterSize(stdout, ioBufSize)
-// a row for every member of each group but its first, counting each
-// group on prog once its rows are written. stdout may be the terminal
-// prog is drawn on, so the lines go through prog's writer. It returns
-// the number of rows (dupe trees) and the bytes they could reclaim.
-func writeTreeGroups(stdout io.Writer, dupes [][]*treeNode,
-	prog *progress,
-) (int, int64, error) {
-	out := prog.writer(stdout)
 
-	_, err := fmt.Fprintln(out, "first\tdupe\tfiles\tsize")
+	_, err = fmt.Fprintln(out, "first\tdupe\tfiles\tsize")
 	if err != nil {
-		return 0, 0, fmt.Errorf("write stdout: %w", err)
+		return fmt.Errorf("write stdout: %w", err)
 	}
 
 	dupeTrees := 0
@@ -163,22 +81,25 @@ func writeTreeGroups(stdout io.Writer, dupes [][]*treeNode,
 				escapePath(first.path), escapePath(n.path),
 				first.fileCount, first.totalSize)
 			if err != nil {
-				return 0, 0, fmt.Errorf("write stdout: %w", err)
+				return fmt.Errorf("write stdout: %w", err)
 			}
 
 			dupeTrees++
 			reclaimable += first.totalSize
 		}
-
-		prog.increment()
 	}
 
 	err = out.Flush()
 	if err != nil {
-		return 0, 0, fmt.Errorf("write stdout: %w", err)
+		return fmt.Errorf("write stdout: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	return dupeTrees, reclaimable, nil
+	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr,
+		"trees: %d records read, %d duplicate tree groups, %d dupe trees, "+
+			"%s reclaimable\n",
+		records, len(dupes), dupeTrees, humanBytes(reclaimable))
+
+	return nil
 }
 
 // treeBuilder reconstructs the directory hierarchy from records added
@@ -286,23 +207,28 @@ func (b *treeBuilder) finish() (*treeNode, []*treeNode) {
 // name and its signature (size, head, tail, content); mtime is
 // excluded.
 func fileEntry(name string, r scanRec) string {
+	content := r.content
+
+	// A record without a content hash has unknown content (README
+	// "Database"): give it a signature no other file can share, so
+	// trees containing it never compare equal. Real hashes are hex, so
+	// the NUL-prefixed form cannot collide.
+	if content == "" {
+		content = "unhashed\x00" + r.path
+	}
+
 	return "f\x00" + name + "\x00" + strconv.FormatInt(r.size, 10) +
-		"\x00" + string(r.head[:]) + "\x00" + string(r.tail[:]) +
+		"\x00" + r.head + "\x00" + r.tail + "\x00" + content
-		"\x00" + string(r.content[:])
 }
 
-// collectTreeGroups groups directories by digest, counting each one on
+// collectTreeGroups groups directories by digest and returns every
-// prog as it is grouped, and returns every maximal group with two or
+// maximal group with two or more members, each group's members sorted
-// more members, each group's members sorted by path, groups ordered by
+// by path, groups ordered by tree size descending then by first path
-// tree size descending then by first path ascending.
+// ascending.
-func collectTreeGroups(allDirs []*treeNode, super *treeNode,
+func collectTreeGroups(allDirs []*treeNode, super *treeNode) [][]*treeNode {
-	prog *progress,
-) [][]*treeNode {
 	groups := make(map[[sha256.Size]byte][]*treeNode)
 	for _, d := range allDirs {
 		groups[d.digest] = append(groups[d.digest], d)
-
-		prog.increment()
 	}
 
 	var dupes [][]*treeNode
@@ -338,8 +264,7 @@ func collectTreeGroups(allDirs []*treeNode, super *treeNode,
 // digest is the SHA-256 of its child entries — files serialized with
 // name and signature, subdirectories with name and recursive digest —
 // sorted byte-lexicographically. Filenames cannot contain NUL or "/",
-// and every hash and digest is 32 bytes, so NUL delimiters are
+// so NUL delimiters are unambiguous.
-// unambiguous.
 func (n *treeNode) computeDigest() {
 	slices.Sort(n.entries)
 

trees_test.go

@@ -3,25 +3,23 @@ package main
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"database/sql"
-	"os"
 	"slices"
-	"strings"
 	"testing"
-	"time"
 )
 
-// treesOpenLine is the plain line of trees' open phase when it opens
+// Signature hashes shared by the smoke-test records.
-// the database at once; it prints it as the phase starts and as it ends.
+const (
-const treesOpenLine = "[1/4] open: opening the database, elapsed 0s, " +
+	f1Head    = "f1h"
-	"remain unknown"
+	f1Tail    = "f1t"
+	f1Content = "f1c"
+	f2Head    = "f2h"
+	f2Tail    = "f2t"
+	f2Content = "f2c"
+)
 
-// smokeTreeRecs mirrors the tree of the test under README "Definition
+// smokeTreeRecs mirrors the README smoke-test tree layout: /d/t1 and
-// of done": /d/t1 and /d/t2 are identical, /d/t3 differs from them only
+// /d/t2 are identical, /d/t3 differs from them only by one filename.
-// by one filename.
 func smokeTreeRecs() []scanRec {
-	f1Head, f1Tail, f1Content := testHash("f1h"), testHash("f1t"), testHash("f1c")
-	f2Head, f2Tail, f2Content := testHash("f2h"), testHash("f2t"), testHash("f2c")
-
 	return []scanRec{
 		{size: 3000, head: f1Head, tail: f1Tail, content: f1Content, path: "/d/t1/f1"},
 		{size: 100, head: f2Head, tail: f2Tail, content: f2Content, path: "/d/t1/sub/f2"},
@@ -40,7 +38,7 @@ func dbTree(t *testing.T, db *sql.DB) (*treeNode, []*treeNode) {
 
 	tree := newTreeBuilder()
 
-	err := loadFileRows(t.Context(), db, func(int64) {}, tree.add)
+	err := loadFileRows(t.Context(), db, tree.add)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -147,14 +145,13 @@ func TestTreeNamesSortingBeforeSlash(t *testing.T) {
 
 	for _, top := range []string{"/a", "/c"} {
 		for _, p := range []string{"/b", "/b-x/f", "/b.txt", "/b/f"} {
-			content := testHash("c")
+			content := "c"
 			if p == "/b-x/f" {
-				content = testHash("other")
+				content = "other"
 			}
 
 			recs = append(recs, scanRec{
-				size: 1, head: testHash("h"), tail: testHash("t"),
+				size: 1, head: "h", tail: "t", content: content, path: top + p,
-				content: content, path: top + p,
 			})
 		}
 	}
@@ -173,7 +170,7 @@ func TestTreeNamesSortingBeforeSlash(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("directory paths = %q, want %q", got, want)
 	}
 
-	groups := collectTreeGroups(dirs, super, nil)
+	groups := collectTreeGroups(dirs, super)
 
 	gotGroups := groupPaths(groups)
 	wantGroups := [][]string{{"/a", "/c"}}
@@ -206,98 +203,6 @@ func TestRunTreesEscapesPaths(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// TestRunTreesProgressNamesEachPhase runs trees on the smoke-test
-// records with stderr not a terminal, and checks every line it prints
-// there. After the line naming the database, each phase prints a line
-// naming it with its place among the four as it starts and another as
-// it ends. read counts the 6 records before it reads them, group counts
-// the 8 directories, and write the 1 group. The summary comes last, and
-// stdout holds the report alone.
-func TestRunTreesProgressNamesEachPhase(t *testing.T) {
-	path := seedDatabase(t, smokeTreeRecs())
-	t.Setenv(databaseEnv, path)
-
-	stderr := captureStderr(t)
-
-	var stdout bytes.Buffer
-
-	code := run([]string{cmdTrees}, &stdout, os.Stderr)
-	if code != exitOK {
-		t.Fatalf("run(trees) = %d, want %d; stderr: %s",
-			code, exitOK, stderr())
-	}
-
-	report := "first\tdupe\tfiles\tsize\n/d/t1\t/d/t2\t2\t3100\n"
-	if got := stdout.String(); got != report {
-		t.Errorf("stdout = %q, want %q", got, report)
-	}
-
-	// How each line starts; the rate at the end of a phase varies.
-	want := []string{
-		"trees: database " + path + " (from " + databaseEnv + ")",
-		treesOpenLine,
-		treesOpenLine,
-		"[2/4] read: counting the records, elapsed 0s, remain unknown",
-		"[2/4] read: [6/6] 100%, ",
-		"[3/4] group: [0/8] 0%, 0 directories/s, elapsed 0s, remain unknown",
-		"[3/4] group: [8/8] 100%, ",
-		"[4/4] write: [0/1] 0%, 0 groups/s, elapsed 0s, remain unknown",
-		"[4/4] write: [1/1] 100%, ",
-		"trees: 6 records read, 1 duplicate tree groups, 1 dupe trees, ",
-	}
-
-	lines := strings.Split(strings.TrimSuffix(stderr(), "\n"), "\n")
-	if len(lines) != len(want) {
-		t.Fatalf("stderr lines = %q, want %d lines starting %q",
-			lines, len(want), want)
-	}
-
-	for i := range want {
-		if !strings.HasPrefix(lines[i], want[i]) {
-			t.Errorf("stderr line %d = %q, want it to start %q",
-				i+1, lines[i], want[i])
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// TestWriteTreeGroupsOnTerminal writes the smoke-test report to the
-// terminal its write phase's display is drawn on, as a plain "sfdupes
-// trees" does: the terminal must show the header and the row whole,
-// each on a line of its own.
-//
-//nolint:paralleltest // captureStderr replaces the process-wide os.Stderr
-func TestWriteTreeGroupsOnTerminal(t *testing.T) {
-	stderr := captureStderr(t)
-	super, dirs := treeOf(t, smokeTreeRecs())
-	dupes := collectTreeGroups(dirs, super, nil)
-
-	// No timed draws: the display is drawn as it starts and as it ends.
-	p := startProgress(progressParams{
-		label: treesPhase("write"), unit: "groups", total: int64(len(dupes)),
-	}, terminalWidth, time.Hour, time.Now)
-
-	_, _, err := writeTreeGroups(os.Stderr, dupes, p)
-
-	p.finish()
-
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	// A terminal shows each line as the text after its last carriage
-	// return.
-	var shown []string
-
-	for line := range strings.SplitSeq(stderr(), "\n") {
-		shown = append(shown, line[strings.LastIndex(line, "\r")+1:])
-	}
-
-	want := []string{"first\tdupe\tfiles\tsize", "/d/t1\t/d/t2\t2\t3100"}
-	if len(shown) < len(want) || !slices.Equal(shown[:len(want)], want) {
-		t.Errorf("terminal shows lines %q, want %q first", shown, want)
-	}
-}
-
 func TestTreeDigests(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
@@ -327,10 +232,11 @@ func TestTreeDigests(t *testing.T) {
 func TestTreeDigestContentSensitivity(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
-	same, c := testHash("same"), testHash("c")
+	const sharedTail = "same"
+
 	recs := []scanRec{
-		{size: 10, head: same, tail: same, content: c, path: "/r/a/f"},
+		{size: 10, head: sharedTail, tail: sharedTail, content: "c", path: "/r/a/f"},
-		{size: 10, head: testHash("DIFF"), tail: same, content: c, path: "/r/b/f"},
+		{size: 10, head: "DIFF", tail: sharedTail, content: "c", path: "/r/b/f"},
 	}
 
 	_, dirs := treeOf(t, recs)
@@ -348,7 +254,7 @@ func TestCollectTreeGroupsMaximal(t *testing.T) {
 
 	super, dirs := treeOf(t, smokeTreeRecs())
 
-	groups := collectTreeGroups(dirs, super, nil)
+	groups := collectTreeGroups(dirs, super)
 
 	want := [][]string{{"/d/t1", "/d/t2"}}
 	if got := groupPaths(groups); !slices.EqualFunc(got, want,
@@ -372,14 +278,14 @@ func TestCollectTreeGroupsDeterministic(t *testing.T) {
 
 	super, dirs := treeOf(t, recs)
 
-	forward := groupPaths(collectTreeGroups(dirs, super, nil))
+	forward := groupPaths(collectTreeGroups(dirs, super))
 
 	reversed := slices.Clone(recs)
 	slices.Reverse(reversed)
 
 	superR, dirsR := treeOf(t, reversed)
 
-	backward := groupPaths(collectTreeGroups(dirsR, superR, nil))
+	backward := groupPaths(collectTreeGroups(dirsR, superR))
 	if !slices.EqualFunc(forward, backward, slices.Equal) {
 		t.Fatalf("output depends on record order: %v vs %v",
 			forward, backward)
@@ -391,15 +297,14 @@ func TestCollectTreeGroupsSiblings(t *testing.T) {
 
 	// Identical sibling dirs share a parent, so their group cannot be
 	// implied by a parent group and must be reported.
-	h, tl, c := testHash("h"), testHash("t"), testHash("c")
 	recs := []scanRec{
-		{size: 10, head: h, tail: tl, content: c, path: "/p/x1/f"},
+		{size: 10, head: "h", tail: "t", content: "c", path: "/p/x1/f"},
-		{size: 10, head: h, tail: tl, content: c, path: "/p/x2/f"},
+		{size: 10, head: "h", tail: "t", content: "c", path: "/p/x2/f"},
 	}
 
 	super, dirs := treeOf(t, recs)
 
-	got := groupPaths(collectTreeGroups(dirs, super, nil))
+	got := groupPaths(collectTreeGroups(dirs, super))
 
 	want := [][]string{{"/p/x1", "/p/x2"}}
 	if !slices.EqualFunc(got, want, slices.Equal) {
@@ -413,16 +318,15 @@ func TestCollectTreeGroupsDifferingParents(t *testing.T) {
 	// /p/a and /q/b contain identical x subtrees, but /p/a has an
 	// extra file, so the parents' digests differ and the x group must
 	// be reported.
-	h, tl, c, e := testHash("h"), testHash("t"), testHash("c"), testHash("e")
 	recs := []scanRec{
-		{size: 10, head: h, tail: tl, content: c, path: "/p/a/x/f"},
+		{size: 10, head: "h", tail: "t", content: "c", path: "/p/a/x/f"},
-		{size: 99, head: e, tail: e, content: e, path: "/p/a/extra"},
+		{size: 99, head: "e", tail: "e", content: "e", path: "/p/a/extra"},
-		{size: 10, head: h, tail: tl, content: c, path: "/q/b/x/f"},
+		{size: 10, head: "h", tail: "t", content: "c", path: "/q/b/x/f"},
 	}
 
 	super, dirs := treeOf(t, recs)
 
-	got := groupPaths(collectTreeGroups(dirs, super, nil))
+	got := groupPaths(collectTreeGroups(dirs, super))
 
 	want := [][]string{{"/p/a/x", "/q/b/x"}}
 	if !slices.EqualFunc(got, want, slices.Equal) {