[hiccuphippo]

Think of torrents that you can update: You have the magnet link for the one version you are downloading, but also you have available the magnet link for the current version so the uploader can update at anytime and you would receive the update. And if both versions share some pieces, then people can share them across both torrents, and any other torrent that happens to have a piece with the same hash.

[aw3c2]

I would love to try that, can you share a quick and easy breakdown of how I would do publish that?

[StavrosK]

ipfs add -r mydir/

(Add a file to mydir/)

ipfs add -r mydir/

That's it, two different hashes, different contents, but intelligently deduplicated so you only need to download the diff if you already have the files in the former.

[aw3c2]

That's not much different than changing my files, making a new torrent file with a small blocksize and having users use that.

What is the benefit here?

[StavrosK]

That the old seeders can seed the new stuff without knowing about your new torrent.