Wayne wrote regarding 'Re: excluding based on filesystem?' on Wed, Jan 19 at 17:37: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 04:09:32PM -0600, Danny Sauer wrote: > > Perhaps that should be amended to mention that this only happens when > > the pattern doesn't start with a '/'? > > No, the matching you cited does happen with anchored patterns, it's just > not clear in that quote that when rsync is visiting "every subcomponent > of every path", that the strings that it is matching are not the > subcomponents in isolation, but the subcomponent relative to the base of > the transfer.
I see. That clears things up. Thanks. :) --Danny
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