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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2014-12-18 15:58:28 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2014-12-18 15:58:28 -0400 |
| commit | 932bead0a4f86cd2f883e49cb1b71df7d3b2ede7 (patch) | |
| tree | 0eed398d959c9679834e3df02d751f5568d17940 | |
| parent | 95064d074fe166de5dff1c5f500627c95e63e30e (diff) | |
note about trust and checking copies
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/special_remotes/bittorrent.mdwn | 7 |
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diff --git a/doc/special_remotes/bittorrent.mdwn b/doc/special_remotes/bittorrent.mdwn index 4821acc63..b9bbff61a 100644 --- a/doc/special_remotes/bittorrent.mdwn +++ b/doc/special_remotes/bittorrent.mdwn @@ -20,3 +20,10 @@ it cannot upload or remove content. Multi-file torrents are supported; to handle them, `git annex addurl` will add a directory containing all the files from the torrent. + +It's hard to say if a torrent is healthy enough to let a file be downloaded +from it, and harder to predict if a torrent will stay healthy. So, +git-annex takes a cautious approach and when dropping a file, won't +treat this special remote as one of the required [[copies]]. It's probably +a good idea to configure git-annex to fully distrust this remote, by +running `git annex untrust bittorrent` |