jfw: for the problem of the manual drudgery presently involved in getting started as well as infecting new systems with jfw-bitcoin, or jfw-wares more generally, I'm thinking to use the perfectly good sync script I already have; you'll simply get *all* my patches then take your pick of what to press. I was trying to prematurely optimize by thinking it needed an option to filter for a specific project.

jfw: that can be the low-hanging fruit for anyone who wants to improve their client; a higher fruit on the same branch would be filtering for just the antecedents of a given patch, e.g. based on the manifest as rendered by a btcbase style patch browser.

jfw: I think I'll be so bold as to house that script in the v.pl tree, remove the recursive-wget based sync that doesn't work on busybox, release a new V starter including my pubkeys, and that'll be that.