incorrect exclude list with -C

[Paul Slootman]

I just received this bug report on Debian's rsync package.
I've verified it. The entry from the manpage:

-C  [...]
    Finally, any file is ignored if it is in the same directory as a
    .cvsignore file and matches one of the patterns listed therein.

Here the patterns of a .cvsignore file is apparently used to exclude
file outside the directory where the .cvsignore file is found.

Any comments?


Paul Slootman


On Wed 24 Mar 2004, Frank Mehnert wrote:
> Subject: Bug#239791: rsync: incorrect exclude list with -C
> From: Frank Mehnert <fm3 at os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:55:16 +0100

> Package: rsync
> Version: 2.6.0-2
> 
> The current version of rsync determines an incorrect exclude list when
> using the -C command line switch. The following example illustrates the
> problem. Consider you have the following directory structure:
> 
>   dir bar/ contains
>     a1/
>     a2/
> 
>   dir bar/a1 contains
>     .cvsignore
> 
>   dir bar/a2 contains
>     zz.foo
> 
>   The file bar/a1/.cvsignore contains
>     *.foo
> 
> The output of
> 
>   rsync -aRCvv bar backup
> 
> is
> 
>   building file list ...
>   expand file_list to 4000 bytes, did move
>   excluding file bar/a2/zz.foo because of pattern *.foo
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   done
>   created directory backup
>   delta-transmission disabled for local transfer or --whole-file
>   bar/
>   bar/a1/
>   bar/a1/.cvsignore
>   bar/a2/
>   total: matches=0  tag_hits=0  false_alarms=0 data=6
> 
>   wrote 170 bytes  read 40 bytes  420.00 bytes/sec
>   total size is 6  speedup is 0.03
> 
> The file bar/a2/zz.foo is NOT backed up. Rsync uses the wildcard *.foo
> found in bar/a1 to deceide that bar/a2/zz.foo should not be backed up!
> 
> And yes, my ~/.cvsignore is empty.