rsync-exclude.patch.

[Anthony R Iano-Fletcher]

Hello everyone

John Bowman writes:

> This is a patch to add an --rsync-exclude=FILE option to rsync-2.5.6.
> Patterns in FILE are used to recursively exclude/include files in a
> directory and all of its subdirectories. For example,
> 
> rsync --rsync-exclude=.rsync -vaxH /here /there
>
> A good idea. I have implemented this as 
>
> http://www.math.ualberta.ca/imaging/rlbackup/rsync-exclude-file.patch
> 

It would be wonderful if this could be added to the next release of
rsync. I've tested it and it works nicely. A nice generalisation.


			Anthony.

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