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1From: Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>
2
3Nix deduplicates by hard-linking identical files, so it's normal for
4the the number of links to a file to differ.
5---
6diff --git a/diffoscope/comparators/directory.py b/diffoscope/comparators/directory.py
7index 7d1cd75..bd91eb0 100644
8--- a/diffoscope/comparators/directory.py
9+++ b/diffoscope/comparators/directory.py
10@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ class Stat(Command):
11 FILE_RE = re.compile(r'^\s*File:.*$')
12 DEVICE_RE = re.compile(r'Device: [0-9a-f]+h/[0-9]+d')
13 INODE_RE = re.compile(r'Inode: [0-9]+')
14+ LINKS_RE = re.compile(r'Links: [0-9]+')
15 ACCESS_TIME_RE = re.compile(r'^Access: [0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}.*$')
16 CHANGE_TIME_RE = re.compile(r'^Change: [0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}.*$')
17
18@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ class Stat(Command):
19 line = Stat.FILE_RE.sub('', line)
20 line = Stat.DEVICE_RE.sub('', line)
21 line = Stat.INODE_RE.sub('', line)
22+ line = Stat.LINKS_RE.sub('', line)
23 line = Stat.ACCESS_TIME_RE.sub('', line)
24 line = Stat.CHANGE_TIME_RE.sub('', line)
25 return line.encode('utf-8')