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diff --git a/doc/devblog/day_454__multicast.mdwn b/doc/devblog/day_454__multicast.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1972c5ead --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/devblog/day_454__multicast.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Earlier this week I had the opportunity to sit in on a workshop at MIT where +students were taught how to use git-annex as part of a stack of tools for +reproducible scientific data research. That was great! + +One thing we noticed there is, it can be hard to distribute files to such a +class; downloading them individually wastes network bandwidth. Today, I +added [[git annex multicast|git-annex-multicast]] which uses `uftp` +to multicast files to other clones of a repository on a LAN. +An "easy" 500 lines of code and 7 hour job. + +There is encryption and authentication, but the key management for this +turned out to be simple, since the public key fingerprints can be stored on +the git-annex branch, and easily synced around that way. So, I expect +this should be not hard to use in a classroom setting such as the one +I was in earlier this week. |