Re: rsync feature suggestion

2003-01-03 Thread Hadmut Danisch
Hi, I just sent an answer to Edward's similar suggestion to the list. regards Hadmut -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: rsync feature suggestion

2003-01-03 Thread Hadmut Danisch
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:28:37AM -0600, Edward King wrote: > Might it be possible to take the file list that you want to feed to > rsync and turn it into an rsync.conf file? It might be possible, but maybe it is ambiguous and definitely not efficient, since --include defines a Pattern, not a fi

rsync feature suggestion

2003-01-03 Thread Hadmut Danisch
Hi, I'd like to suggest a new feature to rsync. Problem: Currently, rsync generates a recursive list of file existing a the source directory, modifies this list by includes and excludes, and then copies these files. That's pretty good in most, but not all cases. I am mirroring a debian archive,