--files-from and --delete mutually exclusive?

[Wayne Davison]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 04:28:19PM -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> Once you've matched each file and directory you want explicitly, can't
> you just exclude everything else

You can't if one of the items specified is a directory whose contents
you want to send.  Otherwise you can.  (Aside "- **" is overkill since
"- *" works the same and is faster.)

..wayne..