Cannot get the syntax of --include-from right

[Robert Parker]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net> wrote:
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> Also, includes only override excludes (which I see you are doing) but
> they must be specified BEFORE the exclude they override.  IOW, your
> include of .vimrc must be before your exclude of .* or it will not do
> anything.

Thanks Kevin,

It's all good now as per my reply to Steven.

Bob Parker

>
> On 09/16/11 11:47, Steven Levine wrote:
>> In <CAAykW6mMRiTVqt0KrrcgYiwNvz7kjHNQC76=rJc+c=+Qpg3b3Q at mail.gmail.com>,
>> on 09/16/11
>>    at 07:34 PM, Robert Parker <rlp1938 at gmail.com> said:
>>
>> HI Robert,
>>
>>> nice -n 15 rsync -avl --exclude=".*" \
>>> --include-from="/home/bob/backup_includes" \
>>> "$fromdir" "$todir"
>>
>>> Here is the content of /home/bob/backup_includes
>>
>>> /home/bob/.vimrc
>>> /home/bob/.gitconfig
>>
>> The paths in your --include-from file must be relative to $fromdir.
>>
>> In general, this is true of all paths other than paths specified on the
>> command line.
>>
>> The paths on the command line effectively create logic roots and the other
>> paths will be relative to these paths.
>>
>> Steven
>>
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