--delete not working

[Sylvain Viart]

Hi Matt,

Matt McCutchen a écrit :
> On 9/24/07, Sylvain Viart <sylvain.viart at easyrencontre.com> wrote:
>   
>> from the source host I do :
>>
>> rsync -rtlv  --exclude='.svn/**' --exclude=.svn --delete preprod/
>> rsync://remote-host/deploiement/preprod/
>>
>> the --dry-run gives me some file to delete.
>>
>> but when I run the command without --dry-run, nothing is deleted?
>>     
>
> I bet the discrepancy has to do with your exclude filter.  The
> --exclude=.svn tells the receiver never to delete a file named .svn,
>   
[...]
Exactly what I've also found. See my post : Re: --delete not working  => 
+filtering disable delete!
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3825
>
> If this isn't your situation, give me some more information and I'll
> try and figure out what the problem is.
>   

It's clearly the same behavior. In fact it's also lack some good doc 
about hide and protect filter. Which seems to to exactly what I need:

    * remove .svn folder on the deployment destination host.
    * keep some other filter to not care file that may reside on the
      deployment host, but doesn't exist on the source. Which introduce
      conflict on the --delete and filtering rules.

ex :

rsync -rtlv  --filter='H .svn' --filter='P cache/**' --filter='P conf/**' \
    --delete preprod/ rsync://remote-host/deploiement/preprod/


In the doc: http://samba.anu.edu.au/ftp/rsync/rsync.html
MERGE-FILE FILTER RULES
> See also the hide (H) and show (S) rules, which are an alternate way 
> to specify sending-side includes/excludes.

rules hide, show, protect, are not really documented.

> but unfortunately, rsync 2.6.9
> and earlier incorrectly itemize them on a dry run.  For more

rsync  version 2.6.9  protocol version 29
Copyright (C) 1996-2006 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
<http://rsync.samba.org/>
Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks,
              batchfiles, inplace, IPv6, ACLs,
              64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums


The bug 3825 is marked as fixed since "Last modified: 2006-11-11 11:30:15 CST."

Why it's still bugged on rsync packaged version?

Thanks Matt, I will try to use Hide filter to produce the expected behavior as suggested in the bug report.

Regards,
Sylvain.

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