Re: [PATCH] gnulib-tool: Fallback to wget when rsync fails

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 05:15:16PM +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 09/02/2014 05:06 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >Looking at wget(1), I'm a little surprised that the selected options
> >appear to avoid clobbering files whose names conflict.  I would have
> >expected that we'd want to overwrite them, to get the fresher version.
> >But the existing wget invocation does the same thing, so maybe it's
> >intentional?
> 
> clobbering is implicitly disabled with the -nd option:
> 
>   -nd
>        --no-directories
>            Do not create a hierarchy of directories when retrieving
>            recursively.  With this option turned on, all files will
>            get saved to the current directory, without clobbering (if
>            a name shows up more than once, the filenames will get
>            extensions .n).

Yes.  As I said, I'm a little surprised that the selected options appear
to avoid clobbering files whose names conflict.