Yet another include/exclude question

[Wayne Davison]

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Thomas Gutzler <thomas.gutzler at gmail.com>wrote:

> I thought --include="/this_dir/" --include="/this_dir/***" would do it,
> but it doesn't. The exclude * seems to overwrite the include matches:
>  [sender] hiding file this_dir/foo because of pattern *
>

Order is important.  Whatever matches first, is what takes effect.  Also,
*** matches both the dir and its contents, so you could use:

  --include='/this_dir/***' --exclude=*

As long as "this_dir" is in the root of the transfer, that will work.

..wayne..
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