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Rules that will bite you if you do not know them:
-- **Two roots cannot share a basename**, even on different drives. `/mnt/a/Films`
- and `/mnt/b/Films` is refused; name one of them explicitly.
+- **Two roots cannot share a name**, even on different drives. When you add
+ `/mnt/b/Films` beside `/mnt/a/Films`, the second one is called `Films (b)`
+ (on Windows, `H:\Films` beside `G:\Films` becomes `Films (H)`). A name you
+ give with `--name` that is already taken is refused.
- **No root inside another.** The same bytes would be indexed twice under two
identities.
- **Renaming a root rewrites every path under it**, so it is an explicit act,