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    mirror: new command to make a mirror of a repo · 2162703a
    Hans-Christoph Steiner authored
    This creates a mirror of a full repo by downloading all files listed in
    the index, and the ones that are generated based on that data, e.g. icons
    of different resolutions.  This could be useful for setting up mirrors of
    small repositories, instead of having to learn and manage rsync or
    something else for mirroring.  This just needs a working repo.
    
    It uses wget in a batch mode with the aim as being as efficient as
    possible.  wget mirroring over HTTP is always going to be less efficient
    than rsync, but it shouldn't be so bad since it uses --continue to check
    whether it has already downloaded a file.  I suppose it could be extended
    to use ETags for a little more efficiency.
    
    I developed this creating a test mirror of f-droid.org, which is now a bit
    ironic, since I added a specific check to prevent people from using this
    on f-droid.org.
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