exclude confusion: what does it match against?
Wayne Davison
wayned at samba.org
Wed Mar 31 15:55:01 GMT 2004
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 09:33:26AM +0200, Francis Montagnac wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:55:48PM -0600, John Van Essen wrote:
> > Example cmd: rsync -a --relative /home/me /dest
> > Source root: /home
>
> I think it's instead:
>
> Source root: /
>
> Am i wrong?
I think you're right. Elsewhere in the man page we're telling people
that excludes are relative to the root of the transfer, so your
correction is necessary to make that true.
I wonder if we should change the examples to have multiple sources?
Perhaps this would be good:
Let's say that we want to match two source files, one with an absolute
path of "/home/me/foo/bar", and one with a path of "/home/you/bar/baz".
Here is how the various command choices differ for a 2-source transfer:
Example cmd: rsync -a /home/me /home/you /dest
Source root: /home (me & you are part of transfer)
+/- pattern: /me/foo/bar
+/- pattern: /you/bar/baz
Target file: /dest/me/foo/bar
Target file: /dest/you/bar/baz
Example cmd: rsync -a /home/me/ /home/you/ /dest
Source root: /home/me (due to trailing /)
Source root: /home/you (ditto)
+/- pattern: /foo/bar (note missing "me")
+/- pattern: /bar/baz (note missing "you")
Target file: /dest/foo/bar
Target file: /dest/bar/baz
Example cmd: rsync -a --relative /home/me/ /home/you /dest
Source root: /
+/- pattern: /home/me/foo/bar (note full path)
+/- pattern: /home/you/bar/baz (ditto)
Target file: /dest/home/me/foo/bar
Target file: /dest/home/you/bar/baz
Example cmd: cd /home; rsync -a --relative me/foo you/ /dest
Source root: /home
+/- pattern: /me/foo/bar (starts at specified path)
+/- pattern: /you/bar/baz (ditto)
Target file: /dest/me/foo/bar
Target file: /dest/you/bar/baz
..wayne..
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