strange behaviour with -C

[Wayne Davison]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 04:21:01AM +0100, Christoph Schindler wrote:
>    hop at krautesel:/var/tmp$ rsync -Can from/ to/
> The files that are not copied over to to/ are chosen at random, it
> seems, altough there are several patterns to be seen:

This is a bug that slipped into 2.6.0 that is fixed in the current CVS
source -- namely that the local excludes from a subdirectory are put
into the global exclude list rather than the local one that would only
affect that one subdir.  There's a single line that changed in flist.c:

--- flist.c	13 Jan 2004 06:27:30 -0000	1.164
+++ flist.c	17 Jan 2004 01:16:49 -0000	1.165
@@ -942,7 +942,7 @@ static void send_directory(int f, struct
 	if (cvs_exclude) {
 		if (strlen(fname) + strlen(".cvsignore") <= MAXPATHLEN - 1) {
 			strcpy(p, ".cvsignore");
-			add_exclude_file(&exclude_list,fname,MISSING_OK,ADD_EXCLUDE);
+			add_exclude_file(&local_exclude_list,fname,MISSING_OK,ADD_EXCLUDE);
 		} else {
 			io_error |= IOERR_GENERAL;
 			rprintf(FINFO,

..wayne..