Feature request: Create a subatom within a directory/Check subdirectory

[m1g0r3ng]

Say I had a .chkbit-db store in my user folder and I wanted to transfer the folder ~/Documents/importantfolder to my external drive for backup.
It would be nice to be able to run something like chkbit init ~/Documents/importantfolder --subatom or chkbit subatom ~/Documents/importantfolder to do the following:

• walk up the path (here ~/Documents/importantfolder)
• try to find a .chkbit-db as we're walking up
• upon finding such a store, seeing if the path's entries are properly added to the store
• if all good, resolve the path's entries to the paths cwd, otherwise error out

This way we can check a backed up folder without having to create the full directory structure for it, or having to recreate a fresh .chkbit-db for said folder; simply create a subatom in the folder, move the folder over for backup, then run and manage chkbit from now on on that folder in the external drive

If there is a better/easier way already to do this let me know!!

[laktak]

You would want to have multiple atom stores (in ~ and ~/Documents/importantfolder)? That is actually the use case for split mode. Split mode allows you to copy only parts because there is an index in every folder.

Exporting a part of the atom index (from ~) to the backup medium would be straight forward. You could actually do this as a workaround with jq since the index is a json file.

Supporting multiple atom indexes in the same directory tree is a bit harder. I'll think about it (but no promises for now).