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In this day and age, why isn't there an automated way to keep file history? (like Dropbox does, but locally and with a decent interface) I am looking for something like that for Linux and my (admittedly short) research didn't turn up much.


Looked at versioning file systems? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versioning_file_system#Linux). They've been around for awhile. Can't say why we don't have any mainstream system-level filesystem yet, though.

You may also want to check out FUSE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace). Something on top of git may already exist. If not, it wouldn't be too difficult to create something like that.


Well, OS X has such a framework built in for apps to use.




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