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The legacy data carried space-stripped twins: 'DellInc.' beside 'Dell Inc.', 'Windows10' beside 'Windows 10', 'OptiPlex7080' beside 'OptiPlex 7080'. They rode into the shipped seed catalog, so every site that ran `seed catalog` inherited them, and they stay invisible until somebody opens a vendor picker and finds the same company listed twice. Not a code fault. The collector strips only leading and trailing whitespace, matches with ilike, and treats the OS list as lookup-only, so it can neither have created these nor be creating more. They arrived with the classic-ASP import, which holds the same three pairs today. `flask catalog dedupe` merges only whitespace-and-punctuation twins, because those are one name typed two ways. 'Dell' and 'Dell Inc.' normalise apart and are left alone: that is a naming choice and only a person can make it. The surviving row is the most referenced, tie-broken toward the spaced spelling, which is the one somebody pressed the space bar for. `flask catalog merge` makes that judgment call explicitly, and refuses to invent a target that does not exist, so a typo cannot move rows into a new vendor. `flask catalog rename` handles the case neither can reach: a stripped name with NO twin, where there is nothing to merge into. All three report and change nothing unless --apply is passed, and dedupe is idempotent so it is safe in a deploy script. References are discovered from the LIVE schema rather than listed in code. There are 15 foreign keys into these three tables across 7 tables, and machines.controllervendorid and printerdrivers.modelnumberid are not ones anybody would enumerate by hand. Every reference is repointed before the row is deleted, so nothing is orphaned, and a plugin adding a table is covered without editing this command.
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