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Xavier Roche c38bf69c7d Report what a crawl changed against the previous mirror (--changes)
--update already knows which resources were new, which changed and which the
server called unchanged, and throws it away: the flags reach file_notify() and
go no further than a log line, while deletions exist only as a side effect of
purging. --changes (-%d) keeps all of it and writes hts-changes.json plus a
one-line summary in the log.

"Changed" means the bytes differ, not that the server re-sent the resource.
Comparing the mirrored files directly would not work: HTTrack stamps every
parsed page with the crawl date via the footer, so those bytes differ on every
run. Payloads are compared instead, the previous one coming from the cache for
parsed pages and from the local copy sampled just before it is overwritten for
everything else.

The mirror-relative path, not the URL, is the accumulator's key, so a redirect
and its target that share a save name are one entry; and only the first notify
for a file samples its pre-run state, so a retried transfer is not counted
twice. What counts as already mirrored comes from the previous run's file
index rather than from the file's presence on disk: a partial left by this
crawl's own failed attempt is on disk but was never part of the previous
mirror.

The deleted set is now computed whether or not purging is enabled; unlinking
still happens only under --purge-old.

Closes #714

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Xavier Roche <xroche@gmail.com>
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