https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4764
------- Comment #4 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-07-05 17:39 CST ------- (In reply to comment #3) > if this where true, an --exclude-from file > > + 6/ > - * > > should only match directories named '6'. For example > > core/6 > update/6 > > and so on. Could you please explain me, why I am seeing with this rule above > > $ rsync -av --exclude-from=exclude.txt rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/ > [...] > receiving file list ... done > drwxr-xr-x 77 2007/05/21 23:37:48 . > > sent 101 bytes received 787 bytes 118.40 bytes/sec > total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 > > The driectories '6' are not matched at all --- and there are some of them > within this hierarchy! At least these I expect to be listed! In all of your examples, rsync's behavior is correct. The "core" and "update" directories are excluded by the "- *", so rsync never even goes inside to check for "6" directories. The man page explains this: ``Note that, when using the --recursive (-r) option (which is implied by -a), every subcomponent of every path is visited from the top down, so include/exclude patterns get applied recursively to each subcomponent's full name (e.g. to include "/foo/bar/baz" the subcomponents "/foo" and "/foo/bar" must not be excluded). The exclude patterns actually short-circuit the directory traversal stage when rsync finds the files to send. If a pattern excludes a particular parent directory, it can render a deeper include pattern ineffectual because rsync did not descend through that excluded section of the hierarchy. This is particularly important when using a trailing '*' rule. For instance, this won't work: + /some/path/this-file-will-not-be-found + /file-is-included - * This fails because the parent directory "some" is excluded by the '*' rule, so rsync never visits any of the files in the "some" or "some/path" directories.'' -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.samba.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html