Re: [Bug-wget] (no subject)

[Micah Cowan]

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sd70 wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I use wget for all of my mirroring tasks, but I have one small problem
> that I can't work around.  I wish there was a way when mirroring a
> website that I could get files that are that that target for replacement
> to be renamed with the .1 .2 .3  convention like you can do when you are
> not not using -N -r -l and -m.  I need to see old pages as they progress
> and this would be really helpful.  As it is now, I have to keep running
> an entire copy and comparison scenario to get around this, which results
> in alot of wasted processor cycles.
>  
> Is there a chance that this could functionality could be added to a
> future release?

What I dislike about this is that it mixes conventions. If we added
something like this, then in some cases .1, .2, .3 would indicate
progressively newer versions, and in others it'd be progressively older
ones.

It really sounds to me like you want to use a versioning system (that is
what they're for, after all). I would highly recommend Mercurial (hg).
Git is also very popular (though it has a bit more of a learning curve,
with little if any additional benefit). There's also Bazaar (bzr),
Darcs, Subversion (also popular, and perhaps a better choice than the
others if you have large files).

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HTH,
Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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