Hi, once again thanks for the all the good feedback. As said, we keep the complicated pattern matching for the description, allowing to escape colons.
Thanks, Eric On 18/06/2020 05:20, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 6/17/20 1:15 AM, Eric L. Zolf wrote: >> Hi, >> >> in the course of the review of PR #404 we came to challenge the quite >> complex quoting rules allowed when you backup to/from a remote location. >> >> Our question is if anybody is relying on those (too) complex quoting >> rules to make their backup work? Else it'll allow us to radically >> simplify the code. >> >> More details: if you backup to/from a remote site, the description is of >> the form `host::path` (e.g. `rdiff-backup /home >> myuser@myhost::/srv/backup/homebak`), and the current quoting allows to >> have the double colons (::) somewhere in the `host` or `path` part of >> the remote description. And the question is if anybody knows of a >> concrete use case for this possibility? > > On my CentOS 6 system, "locate :: | wc -l" returns 2544, all of which > are under /usr/share/man. While it is inconceivable that I would ever > have one of those names in a backup source or destination, it is quite > possible that I might want to restore one of those files. >
