Panasync Tools provides a set of commands that
enables version tracking among plain file copies.
Retaining the basic functionality of standard copy
commands, one can always track if a file has seen
more updates than another file, and determine
redundant or equivalent file copies. The approach
is totally decentralized and serverless, and the
functionality is achieved by small command-line
user level programs that manipulate (by
duplicating, comparing, joining and moving) any
given file. By copying files with these commands
users can detect if those files forgotten on disks
or dispersed on different file systems and
computers hold obsolete versions, and can thus be
deleted, or need to be merged when depicting
parallel updates. The updates, themselves can be
done by any application since the system keeps a
digest of the files to detect changes.
