On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 04:02:23PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 12:40:05PM -0800, jw schultz wrote:
> > One specifying subpaths and the other for those having a shared
> > prefix.
>
> I don't see why this is needed. For instance, your example of a shared
> prefix:
>
> > find srcdir | myfilter | rsync --file-list - srcdir destloc
>
> would be easily written without any sharing:
>
> find srcdir | myfilter | rsync --file-list - . destloc
that would produce destloc/srcdir/....
when you might want a copy of srcdir at destloc instead of
in destloc.
>
> or:
>
> find /foo/bar | myfilter | rsync --file-list - / destloc
And that would produce destloc/foo/bar/...
What if you wanted destloc/bar/... or destloc/...
That could be achieved with "rsync --file-list - /foo destloc"
or "rsync --file-list - /foo/bar destloc" respectively
> Am I missing something?
The scope of source also affects what constitutes a safe
symlink.
>
> > doing
> > rsync --file-list-relative - src dest <<EOL"
> > file1
> > file2
> > dir1/file3
> > EOL
> > would actually sync
> > src/file1
> > src/file2
> > src/dir1
> > src/dir1/file3
> > to
> > dest/file1
> > dest/file2
> > dest/dir1
> > dest/dir1/file3
>
> I think that should only happen if the --relative option is set.
> Otherwise all 3 files should go directly into "dest".
I don't think so. --relative would create
dest/src/file1
dest/src/file2
dest/src/dir1
dest/src/dir1/file3
Would it not?
The point here is to tell rsync "sync these files from this
location to this other location"
Consider
find /foo/bar | myfilter | while read f; do rsync $f destloc${f#/foo/bar}; done
and
--include-from filelist --exclude '*' --exclude '*/'
These are what we currently tell people to do. The first
has lots of overhead for the session setup and teardown and
fork/exec. The second has you walking entire file trees
comparing patterns (apparently non-intuitive) when we only
care about a set list of files.
In any case the --file-list approach will meet peoples real
(and imagined) needs in a much more direct way.
At this time, i don't need this functionality myself. But
this hits the list quite frequently and i thought it would
be good to discuss what it should look like before someone
cranks out a patch that is poorly thought out.
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