>>>>> " " == Lenny Foner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 10:22:38 -0600 From: Dave Dykstra
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I like that idea. I would call it "--only-from".
> One corner case to consider is: What happens when one of the
> pathnames in the list turns out to be a directory? My advice
> it to keep it absolutely as simple as possible and warn about
> it, but take no other action for that particular pathname. In
> other words, leave it up to the source of the pathname list to
> properly get rid of directories, rather than suddenly opening
> up the same can of worms that rsync already has by getting
> fancy about what to do with directories, inclusion, exclusion,
> etc etc.
without -r, dont recurse, with -r, recurse.
Anything else would be unintuitive. But if thats a client or server
feature....
MfG
Goswin
