Can you tell me more about your specific use case?

It generally does not make sense to have two DATs write their files to the same directory. That's why the various --dir-dat-* options exist. And DATs don't (or shouldn't) have files of the same name with different checksums.

I was importing ps3 bios in my bios folder, igir said it has found and write 3 bioses. But when I ask a report on the bios folder it had only 1 bios. Take me some time to understand where was the problem.

<game name="[BIOS] PS3 System Software Update (World) (v4.88)" id="12137">
  <description>[BIOS] PS3 System Software Update (World) (v4.88)</description>
  <rom name="PS3UPDAT.PUP" size="206146716" crc="9d98af0b" md5="a0b63a3e4ae92ed176d6b9a67ce447f0" [...]>
</game>
<game name="[BIOS] PS3 System Software Update (World) (v4.89)" id="12138">
  <description>[BIOS] PS3 System Software Update (World) (v4.89)</description>
  <rom name="PS3UPDAT.PUP" size="206197040" crc="29705956" md5="95307e1b51d3bcc33a274db91488d29f" [...]/>
</game>

If Igir had warn me it was rewriting 3 times the same filename I'll have understood faster.

Maybe you're right about having two DATs write their files to the same directory, I dun know !

Ty,

Every time I think I know what the standards of various DAT groups are, they surprise me 🙂.

I'll think about how I want to handle a conflict warning/error, I think it's a good suggestion.

In the meantime, I'll fix up parent/clone inference for this so you can use --single --prefer-revision-newer or other 1G1R options.

Thanks !