extract all unique files

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bliblubli
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extract all unique files

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Hi,
When I create incremental backups, I create them in different images with the date as a name (like 08.01.2016). But sometime, I want to get all the different versions of a file. First version is in the image x and image x+1, version 2 in image x+3, version 3 in image x+4, x+5, x+6 and x+7. If I extract each image, I'll get version 1 twice, version 2 once and version 3 4 times. Would it be possible to add an option, to extract all files from every image but only once and in all versions. So to say, for every sha-1, one file?
synchronicity
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Re: extract all unique files

Post by synchronicity »

I don't have plans to implement this. It sounds like you want to quickly see the history of individual files, and wimlib isn't really the right tool for this.
bliblubli
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Re: extract all unique files

Post by bliblubli »

Would it be possible to at least give the possibility to pass the SHA1 key to the standard output when extracting? Then we could use it in bash/shell scripts.
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