On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 23:04 +0100, Tiago Marques wrote: > It worked, --delete-excluded was all that was missing. > I really think this should be the implied behavior and would like to > see it as default, if there really isn't a good reason for it being > this way.
The current behavior is useful if files matching a given pattern simply should not be processed at all. E.g., one could use --exclude='*.o' to copy source files from one build tree to another without affecting any object files so that the destination can then do its own incremental rebuilding. I imagine that before the full --filter support was added in rsync 2.6.4, --exclude without --delete-excluded was the only way to protect destination files from deletion. Matt
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