stowe

git for the files git chokes on: music, photos, video, datasets. Versioned and deduped, pushed to backups you can still play.

cargo install stowe

stowe init
stowe add -A
stowe commit -m "import"
stowe remote add origin local:/mnt/drive
stowe push                     # back it up

Remotes come in two shapes

• mirror (local:): real, playable folders on a drive or phone. Open it and your music is right there; stowe's history hides in a .stowe/ beside it.
• backup (s3://, or --format backup): deduped content-addressed blobs. Compact, not browsable.

Push to as many as you like. Each syncs on its own, whenever you want, and stowe convert flips a remote between the two in place, no re-upload.

Handy

• stowe restore <file> [--from <commit>]: undo a change, or time-travel an old version
• stowe pull: rebuild the whole library on a new machine
• stowe adapt <remote>: pull in songs you dropped onto the drive or phone by hand
• Renames and re-tagged songs are tracked as moves (the audio is fingerprinted), not re-uploaded

Run stowe --help for the rest.

License

AGPL-3.0-only