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. > > 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. :-) -- André Majorel <URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/>
