intermodal

I've been bouncing an idea around for a while, on how could I use git as a back-end for a filesharing/chat/collaboration suite -- I think it would work to have a git hook, pre-commit, that replaces all binary files / blacklisted file extensions, with a text file whose contents are the magnet address to download the large binary file over torrent - so the file name, permissions etc don't change, but a small text file is committed instead of the binary. So, as a consumer of the repo, I would clone the repo, and then have a post-checkout hook check the blacklisted file extensions and grab their contents: the magnet link, all that's left is to find peers, download the file and replace the text file with a hardlink to the binary. Maybe this is all too laggy, asynchronous, and mismatched, but I think git+magnet could be a cool combination. I fo

That's a good idea. There's already a `--glob` option, which allows selecting what to include with globs. It's the inverse of `.gitignore`, so `--glob foo` includes foo, and `--glob !foo` ignores foo. I think that the glob library I'm using implements the same syntax as `.gitignore`, so it would be easy to add an `--ignore-file PATH` option. I opened an issue to track this: https://github.com/casey/intermodal/issues/378