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fim looks interesting. I skimmed through the linked page but couldn’t find an answer for a question I have — can fim be used for data stored elsewhere, by which I mean that the fim repository should be located outside the directory structure that it’s tracking? If I have a Photos directory with files and subdirectories, I don’t want that structure to have anything else (including fim).

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There isn't a command line argument for pointing to a .fim/ located elsewhere, if that's what you mean. It probably wouldn't be hard to add that to the utility.

What you could do is put your photos subdirectory inside another directory, something like below.

    data/
    ├── .fim
    │   ├── settings.json
    │   └── states
    │       └── state_1.json.gz
    ├── photos
    └── records

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