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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2014-12-16 23:22:46 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2014-12-16 23:22:46 -0400
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Added bittorrent special remote
addurl behavior change: When downloading an url ending in .torrent, it will download files from bittorrent, instead of the old behavior of adding the torrent file to the repository. Added Recommends on aria2 and bittornado | bittorrent. This commit was sponsored by Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen.
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@@ -104,6 +104,18 @@ feed is "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/PL4F80C7D2DC8D9B6C"
More details about youtube feeds at <http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/01/youtube-feeds.html>
-- `git-annex importfeed` should handle all of them.
+## bittorrent
+
+The [[bittorrent_special_remote|special_remotes/bittorrent]] lets git-annex
+also download the content of torrent files, and magnet links to torrents.
+
+You can simply pass the url to a torrent to `git annex addurl`
+the same as any other url.
+
+You have to have [aria2](http://aria2.sourceforge.net/)
+and bittornado (or the original bittorrent) installed for this
+to work.
+
## podcasts
This is done using `git annex importfeed`. See [[downloading podcasts]].