On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:46:35PM -0500, Derek Simkowiak wrote:
>
> This message describes (imho) a behaviour bug in rsync. I'm going
> to submit a patch, but before I dive into the code I want to know what the
> actual desired behaviour should be. In other words, please comment.
>
> I have some directories I want to keep synchronised between two
> machines (call them "master" and "backup").
>
> Every now and then someone deletes a file on "master". When that
> happens I want to sync the containing directory (in order to have that
> doomed file deleted on "backup"). But here's the catch; I do NOT want to
> recurse into all subdirectories. I ONLY want that one file to be deleted,
> by rsync'ing the containing dir with the --delete option. This is in a
> big dir tree with many subdirs, and it's too expensive for me to sync up
> all subdirs when a single file near the top has been deleted.
Yours is a very unusual request. A directory isn't in sync
unless all its subdirs are.
> 1. Add a --max-recursion-depth option
>
> I could then set this to "1" and have my problem solved. Setting
> --max-recursion-depth to "0" would be the same as not specifying -r.
> That is, setting it to zero would disable sync'ing of directories
> altogether (which is the default behaviour now without the -r).
>
> Pros: Might be generally useful to other individuals, does not change
> current behaviour
> Cons: Yet another special-interest-group option for the docs
This can be accomplihed with --exclude
/*/ == no recursion
/*/*/ == only top level subdirs
/*/*/*/ == only top two levels
It doesn't need another option.
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