Hi rsync developers,
I'm trying to get some fancy mirroring done with selecting files from a
larger archive through the --files-from option. The only problem that I
do see is that rsync will not eat the --delete option whatever I try.
Thus, all the old files remain in the mirror archive instead
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 07:42:20PM +0100, Kilian Krause wrote:
To be more clearly, I want the rsync --files-from option to behave like
take these files out of $TARGET and *ONLY* these files, i.e. deleting
*EVERYTHING* there is except the files given in the index file added to
--files-from.
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 11:33 -0800, Wayne Davison wrote:
+ /foo/
+ /foo/bar/
+ /foo/bar/baz
+ /foo/extra
+ /bar/
+ /bar/another
- /foo/*
- /foo/bar/*
- /bar/*
- /*
Am I missing something? Once you've matched each file and directory you
want explicitly, can't you just exclude everything
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 04:28:19PM -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote:
Once you've matched each file and directory you want explicitly, can't
you just exclude everything else
You can't if one of the items specified is a directory whose contents
you want to send. Otherwise you can. (Aside - ** is
