git pack/unpack over bittorrent - works!

http://gitorious.org/python-libbittorrent/pybtlib

hurrah - success!  git fsck shows a "dangling commit"!

so, as a proof-of-concept, 400 lines of python code plus a bittorrent library shows that it's possible to create a peer-to-peer distributed version of "git fetch", by treating the pack objects as "files to be shared".

as this code has only existed for less than three days, there are a lot of loose ends. such as the pack object files being cached in-memory, and it being strictly speaking unnecessary to obtain absolutely every single pack object from the git repository at start-up time, but to optimise that to being "on-demand" requires some ferreting around in the bittorrent library, etc. etc.

if anyone is interested in helping out, or knows of a way to get this sponsored and completed, please speak up. especially the sponsorship bit because i am in a severely critical and ridiculous financial situation and am in urgent and immediate need of money.

l.