Re: Another feature proposal and implementation plan: --strip-prefix

2004-04-14 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 07:36:23PM -0400, Edwin Olson wrote: > Suppose you're copying a source file /a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h/myfile and you > want it stored on some other filesystem /backup, but you want the source > path to be truncated so that the file actually ends up as: /backup/h/myfile. (I'm assum

Re: Another feature proposal and implementation plan: --strip-prefix

2004-04-14 Thread Jim Salter
Wouldn't it be easier just to create a softlink on the cygwin machine so that you could access C: from /c ? Or for that matter, if these are easily-confused Windows users, just begin the Samba (or other SMB) share south of the cygwin/ on the rsync machine? Here's another feature I'd like to ha

Another feature proposal and implementation plan: --strip-prefix

2004-04-14 Thread Edwin Olson
Here's another feature I'd like to have: Suppose you're copying a source file /a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h/myfile and you want it stored on some other filesystem /backup, but you want the source path to be truncated so that the file actually ends up as: /backup/h/myfile. This comes up (in particular) when