anchoring of patterns for per-directory merge files

[Andy Smith]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 05:59:29PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> 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)

"-/ tmp/" works though, and does only exclude exactly what I want.

Cheers,
Andy