[svn] ChangeLog.README: Renamed from README.branches and added a note that Wget has

[wget] / TODO

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@@ -7,11 +7,17 @@ items are not listed in any particular order (except that recently-added items
 may tend towards the top).  Not all of these represent user-visible
 changes.
 
-* It would be nice to have a simple man page for wget that refers you to the 
-  .info files for more information.  It could be as simple as the output of wget
-  --help plus some boilerplate.  This should stop wget re-packagers like RedHat
-  who include the out-of-date 1.4.5 man page in order to have one.  Perhaps we
-  can automatically generate a man page from the .texi file like gcc does?
+* RFC 1738 says that if logging on to an FTP server puts you in a directory
+  other than '/', the way to specify a file relative to '/' in a URL (let's use
+  "/bin/ls" in this example) is "ftp://host/%2Fbin/ls".  Wget needs to support
+  this (and ideally not consider "ftp://host//bin/ls" to be equivalent, as that
+  would equate to the command "CWD " rather than "CWD /").  To accomodate people
+  used to broken FTP clients like Internet Explorer and Netscape, if
+  "ftp://host/bin/ls" doesn't exist, Wget should try again (perhaps under
+  control of an option), acting as if the user had typed "ftp://host/%2Fbin/ls".
+
+* If multiple FTP URLs are specified that are on the same host, Wget should
+  re-use the connection rather than opening a new one for each file.
 
 * Try to devise a scheme so that, when password is unknown, Wget asks
   the user for one.
@@ -21,6 +27,9 @@ changes.
 * If -c used on a file that's already completely downloaded, don't re-download
   it (unless normal --timestamping processing would cause you to do so).
 
+* If -c used with -N, check to make sure a file hasn't changed on the server
+  before "continuing" to download it (preventing a bogus hybrid file).
+
 * Take a look at
   <http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/norobots-rfc.html>
   and support the new directives.
@@ -46,8 +55,6 @@ changes.
 
 * Make wget return non-zero status in more situations, like incorrect HTTP auth.
 
-* Timestamps are sometimes not copied over on files retrieved by FTP.
-
 * Make -K compare X.orig to X and move the former on top of the latter if 
   they're the same, rather than leaving identical .orig files laying around.
 
@@ -120,3 +127,6 @@ changes.
 * Add a "rollback" option to have --continue throw away a configurable number of
   bytes at the end of a file before resuming download.  Apparently, some stupid
   proxies insert a "transfer interrupted" string we need to get rid of.
+
+* When using --accept and --reject, you can end up with empty directories.  Have
+  Wget any such at the end.