Read the "PER-DIRECTORY RULES AND DELETE" of the man page. (And
don't feel bad, it took me a while to figure it out myself).
Short version: per-directory rules only apply on the side they're
*specified on*, but you need the exclusion to apply to *both* sides.
The following works, for the
I am not 100% sure I am interpreting this correctly but I think you are
complaining that the file was being deleted in the first command? If
so, instead of -F try --include='*/' --exclude='*'. Otherwise, maybe
you want a second -F?
On 3/6/23 16:04, Heiko Schlittermann via rsync wrote:
Hello,
given are 2 directories:
a
├── a-file
└── .rsync-filter
b
└── a-file
I'd like to sync a/ -> b/, but I'd like to *exclude* all files. But I do
not want to delete the excluded files. (The real scenario is a way more
complex, the above is my reproducer.)
and the
