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Overlay: a workspace that keeps its writes to itself, to learn what a tool would leave on disk without changing it.

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A Workspace over another that reads through to it and keeps every write, removal and rename to itself: run a file tool on it to learn what the tool would leave on disk (changes) while the disk stays as it is. It runs no commands, since what a command changes cannot be kept from the disk.