On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Christoph Biedl <cbi...@gmx.de> wrote:
> + *.git/.git/* > - *.git/ > >From the man page near the start of the "INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERN RULES" section: *Note that, when using the --recursive (-r) option (which is implied by > -a), every subcomponent of every path is visited from the top down, so > include/exclude patterns get applied recursively to each subcomponent’s > full name (e.g. to include "/foo/bar/baz" the subcomponents "/foo" and > "/foo/bar" must not be excluded). The exclude patterns actually > short-circuit the directory traversal stage when rsync finds the files to > send.* Thus, your latter exclude prevents the first include from ever seeing any data that it could match. You'd need to use something more like this: + *.git/.git/ - *.git/* ..wayne..
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