strange behaviour with -C

[Christoph Schindler]

Hi!

This problem gave me quite a headache tonight...

I more or less have this source directory:

   hop at krautesel:/var/tmp$ ls -laR from/
   from/:
   total 12
   drwxrwxr-x    3 hop      hop          4096 Feb  8 03:34 .
   drwxrwxrwt    6 root     root         4096 Feb  8 03:34 ..
   drwxrwxr-x    2 hop      hop          4096 Feb  8 03:18 CVS
   -rw-rw-r--    1 hop      hop             0 Feb  8 03:18 a_gallery.php
   -rw-rw-r--    1 hop      hop             0 Feb  8 03:18 doctype.inc
   -rw-rw-r--    1 hop      hop             0 Feb  8 03:18 footer.inc
   -rw-rw-r--    1 hop      hop             0 Feb  8 03:18 gallery.php
   -rw-rw-r--    1 hop      hop             0 Feb  8 03:18 index.php
   drwxrwxr-x    5 hop      hop          4096 Feb  8 03:12 projects

   from/projects:
   total 24
   drwxrwxr-x    5 hop      hop          4096 Feb  8 03:12 .
   drwxrwxr-x    3 hop      hop          4096 Feb  8 03:34 ..
   -rw-rw-r--    1 hop      hop             2 Feb  8 03:12 .cvsignore
   drwxrwxr-x    2 hop      hop          4096 Feb  8 03:12 CVS
   drwxrwxr-x    2 hop      hop          4096 Feb  8 03:35 medien_welten
   drwxrwxr-x    2 hop      hop          4096 Feb  8 03:35 rodeoworlds

[there is more, but I reduced it, so that I could see the effect better.
All I describe here is also valid for the original dir with data in the
files, etc.]

The file from/projects/.cvsignore contains exactly one line, containing
exactly one asterisk `*'. (Maybe I shouldn't have done this, but it
works exactly they way I intended it with cvs)

Now, when I do the following:

   hop at krautesel:/var/tmp$ rsync -Can from/ to/

(to/ still being empty at that time) the following happens:

   building file list ... done
   footer.inc
   gallery.php
   index.php

   wrote 154 bytes  read 32 bytes  372.00 bytes/sec
   total size is 0  speedup is 0.00

Yeah, yeah.. Doctor said "So don't do it", and i don't do it anymore,
but I thought you might be interested ;)

I have checked every other place or environment variable that has to do
witch cvsignore, but found nothing. Also the problem instantly goes away
if i explicitly name the to subdirs of projects/ and remove the *.

The files that are not copied over to to/ are chosen at random, it
seems, altough there are several patterns to be seen:

 -) all of the a_*.php files are omitted
 -) all but one of the *.inc files are omitted
 -) the .cvsignore in projects/ is omitted, but not the one in from/

Any ideas?

greetings!hop


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