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add another idea: use an external bittorrent client

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There are two different possible ways git-annex could use bittorrent:
1. by downloading any file from multiple git-annex daemons, using the bittorrent protocol
2. by downloading specific files using an external bittorrent client
Let's describe those one by one.
The assistant as a bittorrent client
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Another thing, this would be completely trackerless. You just use remote groups (or create swarm definitions) and share those with your remotes. **It's completely decentralized!**
This was originally posted [[as a forum opst|forum/Wishlist:_Bittorrent-like_transfers]].
This was originally posted [[as a forum post|forum/Wishlist:_Bittorrent-like_transfers]] by [[users/GLITTAH]].
Using an external bittorrent client
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The alternative to this would be to add `addurl` support for bittorrent files. The same way we can now add Youtube videos to a git-annex repository thanks to [[quvi]], we could also simply do:
git annex addtorrent debian-live-7.0.0-amd64-standard.iso.torrent
or even better:
git annex addurl http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/bt-hybrid/debian-live-7.0.0-amd64-standard.iso.torrent
This way, a torrent would just become another source for a specific file. When we `get` the file, it fires up `$YOUR_FAVORITE_TORRENT_CLIENT` to download the file.
That way we avoid the implementation complexity of shoving a complete bittorrent client within the assistant. The `get` operation would block until the torrent is downloaded, i guess...