Enhancement to --human-readable output

Firstly, let me say thank you for adding the human readable output option. It is working great so far with my testing!

I was hoping you could add another option to make the human readable name in the file name as well? This makes it easy to provide to software a bunch of these files and have output we can understand. Not quite sure how versions would work though.

Current: human_readable/genbank/bacteria/Dichelobacter/nodosus/VCS1703A/GCA_000015345.1_ASM1534v1_genomic.gbff.gz

Alternate suggested: human_readable/genbank/bacteria/Dichelobacter/nodosus/VCS1703A/Dichelobacter_nodosus_VCS1703A.gbff.gz

[kblin]

That said, can we move the discussion of alternative download strategies into a different issue? I’d like to keep this one about human-readable file names.

[kblin]

Yeah, I think generating a list of things to rsyncand using the --files-from parameter would be the way to go if rsync support is what is desired. I personally have no interest in supporting non-OSS tools, but I certainly would be happy to accept patches adding support for aspera as well.

The main reason that I didn’t add rsync support so far is that rsync transfers are single-threaded, unless you spend some extra work to split the source files and then use a process pool to fork and execute multiple rsync processes. I don’t see a big benefit over the existing HTTP transfer method.