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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-12-16 16:32:29 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-12-16 16:38:06 -0400 |
| commit | 6aa7e136b5d246228723f4c9996bda11f66c4445 (patch) | |
| tree | 145310079adb607fae058a0a1dd42c7f155d26e1 /doc/git-annex-p2p.mdwn | |
| parent | 353b59a000dd0e4941b3c36a7fd02d23f3cf44a1 (diff) | |
p2p --link now defaults to setting up a bi-directional link
Both the local and remote git repositories get remotes added
pointing at one-another.
Makes pairing twice as easy!
Security: The new LINK command in the protocol can be sent repeatedly,
but only by a peer who has authenticated with us. So, it's entirely safe to
add a link back to that peer, or to some other peer it knows about.
Anything we receive over such a link, the peer could send us over the
current connection.
There is some risk of being flooded with LINKs, and adding too many
remotes. To guard against that, there's a hard cap on the number of remotes
that can be set up this way. This will only be a problem if setting up
large p2p networks that have exceptional interconnectedness.
A new, dedicated authtoken is created when sending LINK.
This also allows, in theory, using a p2p network like tor, to learn about
links on other networks, like telehash.
This commit was sponsored by Bruno BEAUFILS on Patreon.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/git-annex-p2p.mdwn | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/git-annex-p2p.mdwn b/doc/git-annex-p2p.mdwn index 6c50c9dd2..cefa116d6 100644 --- a/doc/git-annex-p2p.mdwn +++ b/doc/git-annex-p2p.mdwn @@ -24,13 +24,16 @@ services. * `--link` - Sets up a git remote that is accessed over a P2P network. + Sets up a link with a peer over the P2P network. This will prompt for an address to be entered; you should paste in the address that was generated by --gen-address in the remote repository. - Defaults to making the git remote be named "peer1", "peer2", - etc. This can be overridden with the `--name` option. + A git remote will be created, with a name like "peer1", "peer2" + by default (the `--name` option can be used to specify the name). + + The link is bi-directional, so the peer will also have a git + remote added to it, linking back to the repository where this is run. * `--name` |