Proposal: Git Integration

[EternityForest]

With the existence of LFS, Git has become a pretty nice way of distributing files. Git already tracks hashes in a content-addressible way, making it a natural fit, useful in the same manner as webseeds.

I'm proposing the addition of a feature where a Torrent can contain embedded links to a Git repository, along with a per-file SHA256 matching the Git hashes.

Being able to integrate the two would have some really nice properties, you could create torrents simply by making a Git repo on a compatible seedbox and exporting the state as a torrent.

Similarity, with the right Git plugin, one could git clone a torrent that had a clonable flag, transferring as much of the data over P2P as possible to save bandwidth, and then allowing for updates via git.

This would be very useful wherever you want to update a bunch of servers on the same network from a Git repo.

Multiple torrents could even share the same git repo, downloading only the needed content.

[ghost]

Hi @EternityForest, how are you?

I would like to say that I think your ideas here are incredible. One question I would like to ask you is whether GitTorrent implements such functionality as you write here. Does GitTorrent implement such functionality as you write here? Is there any difference between Gittorrent and what you are requesting here?

I expect some answer to that question if you can answer it and have time for it.