On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 03:18:03PM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 23:40 -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 09:46:04PM -0700, Stuart Anderson wrote: > > > 3) Try excluding a/, this does not work: > > > > > > # rsync -avn --relative --exclude a/ /tmp/source/./a/? /tmp/destination > > > > That's because 'a' is an implied directory in the longer path that you > > told rsync to transfer. Implied directories can't be excluded, but > > their attributes can be omitted via --no-implied-dirs. If you don't > > want it in the transfer, don't specify it (and if you're using wild- > > cards, specify them in such as way as to avoid matching the dir you > > don't want). > > I can understand not being able to exclude a/ from the file list while > still transferring stuff under it. Still, I should be able to exclude > a/ and everything under it by passing --exclude='/a/***' . But this > doesn't work in rsync 3.0.2: rsync excludes a/b but adds the implied dir > a/ to the file list anyway. (Obviously, it worked in rsync 2.6.9, which > allowed the user to exclude implied dirs.) I think rsync should check > whether a source argument is excluded before adding any dirs it implies.
This would be sufficient for my needs, and I didn't realize it is a change in behavior from 2.6.9 to 3.0.2. Thanks. -- Stuart Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~anderson -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html