[Bug-wget] [bug #56807] Recreate files instead of rewriting them

[anonymous]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56807>

                 Summary: Recreate files instead of rewriting them
                 Project: GNU Wget
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Mon 26 Aug 2019 09:32:42 AM UTC
                Category: Feature Request
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Hans-Henrik Stærfeldt
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 1.14
        Operating System: GNU/Linux
         Reproducibility: Every Time
           Fixed Release: None
         Planned Release: None
              Regression: None
           Work Required: None
          Patch Included: None

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Details:

In case of a mirror, if existing files need to be rewritten,
have an option that re-creates them in case they have more than
one reference to the inode, instead of writing new content to the existing
inode. 

This is important, if you need to use hardlinks creatively, and wants wget to
write a new file with the new downloaded content, and leave the old hardlinked
file copy alone.





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