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Re: [Bug-wget] WGET bug with --timestamping
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Andre Majorel |
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Re: [Bug-wget] WGET bug with --timestamping |
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Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:46:57 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) |
On 2008-12-04 13:59 -0500, Jay Pellam wrote:
> Contrary to what the help says (--timestamping: don't
> re-retrieve files unless newer than local), WGET re-retrieves
> the file and overwrites a NEWER file if the sizes are different.
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> To me this seems clearly wrong. There is no question that its
> wrong when the performance is compared to the documentation. I
> could understand why you might not want to change this behavior
> absolutely but if not a new switch should be provided, eg,
> --ignoresize.
What seems now an eternity ago, I wrote an --ignore-size patch for
Wget.
http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/wget/
If it still applies, get a lottery ticket ASAP. :-)
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André Majorel <URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/>