Spent a couple days adding a [[bittorrent_special_remote|special_remotes/bittorrent]] to git-annex. This is better than the demo external torrent remote I made on Friday: It's built into git-annex; it supports magnet links; it even parses aria2c's output so the webapp can display progress bars. Besides needing `aria2` to download torrents, it also currently depends on the `btshowmetainfo` command from the original bittorrent client (or bittornado). I looked into using instead, but that package is out of date and doesn't currently build. I've got a patch fixing that, but am waiting to hear back from the library's author. There is a bit of a behavior change here; while before `git annex addurl` of a torrent file would add the torrent file itself to the repository, it now will download and add the contents of the torrent. I think/hope this behavior change is ok..