anchoring of patterns for per-directory merge files
Andy Smith
andy at strugglers.net
Wed Nov 11 10:59:29 MST 2009
Hi Paul,
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:43:33PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote:
> From the manpage:
>
> The following modifiers are accepted after a “+” or “-”:
>
> o A / specifies that the include/exclude rule should be matched
> against the absolute pathname of the current item. For example,
> “-/ /etc/passwd” would exclude the passwd file any time the
> transfer was sending files from the “/etc” directory, and “-/
> subdir/foo” would always exclude “foo” when it is in a dir named
> “subdir”, even if “foo” is at the root of the current transfer.
>
> Hence, your dir-merge setup causes only the absolute path /tmp/ to be
> excluded. If you want to exclude /data/home/andy/tmp/ then put that in
> your .rsync-filter .
Neither "-/ /data/home/andy/tmp/" nor "- /data/home/andy/tmp/" nor
"-/ /home/andy/tmp/" match. (I'd already tried the middle one,
anyway)
> The leading slash behaves differently in a dir-merge rule than in a
> "normal" include file.
That's what I was counting on, as the manual says:
Anchoring Include/Exclude Patterns
As mentioned earlier, global include/exclude patterns are
anchored at the 'root of the transfer' (as opposed to
per-directory patterns, which are anchored at the
merge-file's directory). If you think of the transfer as a
subtree of names that are being sent from sender to
receiver, the transfer-root is where the tree starts to be
duplicated in the destination directory. This root governs
where patterns that start with a / match.
Which to me implies that if I start the path with a / then it should
be referring to the same directory that the merge file is in.
> At least, that's how I read the manpage :-)
It's possible, but your interpretation does not work for me either.
:(
Cheers,
Andy
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