Re: excluding a directory without stating its contents?

2008-11-12 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 22:02 -0200, Carlos Carvalho wrote: > I need to exclude a directory at the root of the sync tree. It's big, > so it's important that both the source and destination don't waste > time stating their contents. Should I use > > --exclude /dir > or > --exclude /dir/*** > > o

Re: a question concerning --partial

2008-11-12 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 20:54 +0100, Cezary Sliwa wrote: > Is it true that when --partial is specified and a partial download is > present, the contents of the file itself are not used to speed up the > download? i.e. only the content of the file in the partial dir is used when > the download is resu