fatal errors versus warnings

[Ben Escoto]

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>>>>> "BC" == Bryce C <Bryce>
>>>>> wrote the following on Fri, 31 May 2002 00:26:28 -0700 (PDT)

  BC> However I have found that if the file list is empty,
  BC> rdiff-backup exists with:

  BC> Fatal Error: Last selection expression: Filelist: files.txt only
  BC> specifies that files be included.  Because the default is to
  BC> include all files, the expression is redundant. Exiting because
  BC> this probably isn't what you meant.

  BC> Is this what should be happening? Is there a way I can make it
  BC> continue on even if the list is empty?

Heh, this is a case of rdiff-backup being too clever for its own
good.  The idea was to prevent people from running stuff like:

rdiff-backup --exclude /usr --include /usr/bin ....

Since rdiff-backup reads the include/exclude arguments from left to
right, this would almost certainly be a mistake.  So rdiff-backup
checks the last selection option to make sure it excludes something.

    But now I see sometimes the last option doesn't exclude anything,
and this is intentional.  Anyway, I was going to release a new version
anyway, so I threw a fix into 0.7.6, so try that.


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Ben Escoto

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