idea: include/exclude files by mime type (use magic like file(1) does)

2009-06-18 Thread Shawn Rutledge
I have been thinking this would be a nice feature: exclude files by type rather than just regular expressions. Mostly because binaries don't have any extension on Linux, so they aren't recognizable just by name. At work I rsync a source directory for doing builds in a chroot environment for the t

Possible Bug or limitation in Cygwin 1.7 and Rsync and file number limit

2009-06-18 Thread Kyles Mailing Lists
I'm not sure if this is a bug or a limitation that can be worked around with a setting somewhere, but I have found a problem with cygwin 1.7 while using rsync. I have been using rsync and cygwin v1.5 for quite some time. I recently started testing cygwin v1.7 and I ran into a problem with an a

Possible Bug or limitation in Cygwin 1.7 and Rsync and file number limit

2009-06-18 Thread Kyles Mailing Lists
I'm not sure if this is a bug or a limitation that can be worked around with a setting somewhere, but I have found a problem with cygwin 1.7 while using rsync. I have been using rsync and cygwin v1.5 for quite some time. I recently started testing cygwin v1.7 and I ran into a problem with an a

Possible Bug or limitation in Cygwin 1.7 and Rsync and file number limit

2009-06-18 Thread lists
I'm not sure if this is a bug or a limitation that can be worked around with a setting somewhere, but I have found a problem with cygwin 1.7 while using rsync. I have been using rsync and cygwin v1.5 for quite some time. I recently started testing cygwin v1.7 and I ran into a problem with an a

Possible Bug or limitation in Cygwin 1.7 and Rsync and file number limit

2009-06-18 Thread lists
I'm not sure if this is a bug or a limitation that can be worked around with a setting somewhere, but I have found a problem with cygwin 1.7 while using rsync. I have been using rsync and cygwin v1.5 for quite some time. I recently started testing cygwin v1.7 and I ran into a problem with an a