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Very productive & long day today, spent adding a new feature to the
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webapp: Internet Archive support!
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[[!img /assistant/iaitem.png]]
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git-annex already supported using archive.org via its S3 special remotes,
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so this is just a nice UI around that.
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How does it decide which files to publish on archive.org? Well,
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the item has a unique name, which is based on the description
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field. Any files located in a directory with that name will be uploaded
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to that item. (This is done via a new preferred content expression I added.)
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So, you can have one repository with multiple IA items attached, and
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sort files between them however you like.
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I plan to make a screencast eventually demoing that.
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Another interesting use case, once the Android webapp is done, would be add
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a repository on the DCIM directory, set the archive.org repository to
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prefer all content, and *bam*, you have a phone or tablet that
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auto-publishes and archives every picture it takes.
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Another nice little feature added today is that whenever a file is uploaded
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to the Internet Archive, its public url is automatically recorded, same
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as if you'd ran `git annex addurl`. So any users who can clone your
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repository can download the files from archive.org, without needing any
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login or password info. This makes the Internet Archive a nice way to
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publish the large files associated with a public git repository.
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