Feature Request: case insensitivity for filter rules

Matt McCutchen hashproduct+rsync at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 00:47:15 GMT 2007


On 2/28/07, Steven Morehouse <steven at criticalnode.com> wrote:
> I've seen the ignore-case patch, but as far as I can tell that's for
> source/destination matching.  That's a different issue entirely I think.
> What I'm proposing would only need to take effect on the sending side.  In
> situations where they also need matching against the receiving side, there
> is the ignore-case patch as well.

It looks like --ignore-case was intended to apply to include/exclude
rules but is broken: wildmatch_array does not set force_lower_case.
The attached metapatch to ignore-case.diff updates offsets and fixes
the mistake so that --ignore-case works on include/exclude rules.

Matt
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