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diff --git a/doc/devblog/day_454__multicast/comment_2_09908606fc362cbee516999cd696f718._comment b/doc/devblog/day_454__multicast/comment_2_09908606fc362cbee516999cd696f718._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b7b527949 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/devblog/day_454__multicast/comment_2_09908606fc362cbee516999cd696f718._comment @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 2""" + date="2017-04-05T15:20:20Z" + content=""" +Multicast is only being used to send git-annex objects around, not git +objects. There's assumed to be some way to sync git repositories, which is +how the encryption keys for uftp are distributed. + +`git annex multicast --send` operates on files in the working tree. +It would be possible to make it support `--all`. + +I'm not sure if uftp can send outside the local LAN. + +It would certianly be possible to have a special remote backed by uftp +that thus only sends to a single host. Since multicast does not send +to any particular remote, it did not make sense to implement it +as a special remote. +"""]] |