excluding based on filesystem?

[Eberhard Moenkeberg]

Hi,

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Danny Sauer wrote:
> Wayne wrote regarding 'Re: excluding based on filesystem?' on Wed, Jan 19 at 15:26:
>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:44:42AM -0600, Danny Sauer wrote:

>>> So, what I'm looking for is possibly a way to make excludes relative
>>> to the root at the beginning of the operation - so that if I specify
>>> "rsync --exclude /dev host:/ /backup/host", only /dev on host is
>>> excluded, not /home/user/dev, etc.
>>
>> That is precicely what already happens.  The only way it would exclude a
>> "dev" further down in the transfer is for you to have specified "dev"
>> instead of "/dev" -- the leading slash anchors the exclude at the base
>> of the transfer.
>
> The man page says
>    Note that, when using the --recursive (-r) option (which is
>    implied by  -a),  every subcomponent  of  every  path is visited
>    from the top down, so include/exclude patterns get applied
>    recursively to each subcomponent.
> Perhaps that should be amended to mention that this only happens when
> the pattern doesn't start with a '/'? :)  Or maybe I should just pay
> more attention to the difference between transfer-base and file-base...

I can confirm from practice what Wayne said.
And, for your mind, a path starting with / is always absolute.
Here: absolute to the module base.
rsync does a "path matching", not a primitive "pattern matching", it 
seems...

Cheers -e
-- 
Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)