I think the functionality of mirror:sort-by option implies that the order
is for all the files irrespective of the directory structure. Or may be it
should support both the options and it would be configuration defined which
one to use.

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Alexander Lukyanov <lavv...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Mirror in lftp works directory by directory. It does not build full list
> of files first, so it cannot sort the whole list. Maybe the mirror
> algorithm should be redesigned to build the whole recursive list first.
> What do you think?
>
> 2014-10-29 10:07 GMT+03:00 akshay gupta <akshaygupta...@gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to mirror files using mirror:sort-by option set to
>> 'date-desc'. My  file structure is like this
>>
>> $ ls -l -R
>> total 3191264
>> drwxr-xr-x  3 vikasgoyal  biadmin         102 Oct 22 12:35 1
>> -rw-r--r--  1 vikasgoyal  biadmin           0 Aug  1 01:00 tmp.txt
>> -rw-r--r--  1 vikasgoyal  biadmin           0 Aug  1 05:31 tmp1.txt
>> -rw-r--r--  1 vikasgoyal  biadmin   263940738 Oct 28 13:51 abc.csv
>>
>> ./1:
>> total 0
>> drwxr-xr-x  4 vikasgoyal  biadmin  136 Oct 28 14:19 2
>>
>> ./1/2:
>> total 515512
>> -rw-r--r--  1 vikasgoyal  biadmin          0 Oct 28 14:19 3
>> -rw-r--r--  1 vikasgoyal  biadmin  263940732 Oct 28 14:03 bc.csv
>>
>>
>> I expect the file synch order should be
>>
>> ~/tmp.txt
>> ~/tmp1.txt
>> ~/abc.csv
>> ~/1/2/bc.csv
>> ~/1/2/3
>>
>>
>> but the synch order is:
>> ~/tmp.txt
>> ~/tmp1.txt
>> ~/1/2/bc.csv
>> ~/1/2/3
>> ~/abc.csv
>>
>>
>> I think its the folder modification time that is causing this issue. Lftp
>> considers folder synch time to decide the order even though files contained
>> in the folder are newer then the remaining files in the parent folder. File
>> synch order should be in order of the modification time irrespective of the
>> folder structure. Please help.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Akshay
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
>    Alexander.
>
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