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Ha! I will add the tool I wrote that behaves very similarly but has no external deps: https://github.com/philips/ghar

Nice! I think you have me beat, unless one considers using Python + Fabric as a pro (which may not be unreasonable on a home machine).

How do you resolve conflicts? I think that an interesting problem with lots of interesting solutions.

Ghar punts on resolving conflicts. If the desrination directory or file exists it tells the user and moves on.

Not mine, but homesick is a nice little gem that seems to also do what ghar does. I have no opinion on whether one or the other is better :)