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Earlier this week I had the opportunity to sit in on a workshop at MIT where
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students were taught how to use git-annex as part of a stack of tools for
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reproducible scientific data research. That was great!
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One thing we noticed there is, it can be hard to distribute files to such a
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class; downloading them individually wastes network bandwidth. Today, I
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added [[git annex multicast|git-annex-multicast]] which uses `uftp`
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to multicast files to other clones of a repository on a LAN.
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An "easy" 500 lines of code and 7 hour job.
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There is encryption and authentication, but the key management for this
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turned out to be simple, since the public key fingerprints can be stored on
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the git-annex branch, and easily synced around that way. So, I expect
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this should be not hard to use in a classroom setting such as the one
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I was in earlier this week.
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