I hate to say anything remotely negative to Wayne but... That wording from the man page makes almost no sense without the examples directly after it (and I have read it many times and know what it is saying).
When I go all RTFM on this topic I usually tell them to 'man rsync', search for file-will-not-be-found and start reading from that line. Once you understand the broken and correct examples you can decipher what the explanation above means. On 05/04/2016 09:03 PM, Wayne Davison wrote: > > On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Christoph Biedl <cbi...@gmx.de > <mailto: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.. > > -- ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._., Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 Systems Administrator Internet: FutureQuest, Inc. ke...@futurequest.net (work) Orlando, Florida k...@sanitarium.net (personal) Web page: http://www.sanitarium.net/ PGP public key available on web site. ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,
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