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Support for mutable/updateable torrents was proposed in BEP-0039 (http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0039.html http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0039.html) and
by dpiers 11y ago
Support for mutable/updateable torrents was proposed in BEP-0039 (http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0039.html http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0039.html) and is the basis of how BitTorrent Sync functions.
- rektide 11y agoGreat to have. Alas it relies on a central system of record, is just a feed that can be re-fetched. The 'originator' key is probably worth standardizing around for any future approaches, but using PEX or the DHT to notify the most recent magnet uri or what not. Simply signaling new Magnet URI's would have the disadvantage Gittorrent sought to avoid: resyndicating the entire contents with every single change: a killer for things like the Linux kernel or projects like Debtorrent. Git's merkle-dag avoids this problem, allows multiple concurrent versions to share the bulk of the content-indexing, and best-of-all-worlds solutions would preserve this capability.