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Google currently don't produce a Linux variant of their client for Google-Drive. This is my implementation of a multiplatform, command line tool that for the most part, is intended to behave much like rsync. I aim to follow the same functional implementation of rsync and also provide the same features, enabled or disabled through a similar interface of command line options.

There was a close contender for being a suitable client called grive. This is ideal if you only intend to sync a small library of files or if the files being synchronised are small in size. I found the client to be unreliable in other cases, crashing and failing to synchronise very little. I looked over much of the code and found that it favours preloading with a hash of the directory to be synchronised and all sub directories, before it even synchronises any files. This creates a scenario where synchronisation will never take place if the preloading fails. Instead, I will opt to process directories depth first and sequentially in order to allow synchronisation to occur immediately.

The only prerequisite is that you have python. The makefile will take care of installing any required python libraries using pip, which will also be obtained.