Expanding the include/exclude options

[Ben Escoto]

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>>>>> "DB" == Donovan Baarda <abo@minkirri.apana.org.au>
>>>>> wrote the following on Sat, 30 Mar 2002 19:53:54 +1100

  DB> IMHO there is some benefits in just adopting rsync's
  DB> syntax... it saves on documentation :-)

  DB> But if you dont, then you can do just about anything, including
  DB> things like;

  DB> --select '+/home/**,-**.bak' --select '+/home/** -**.bak'
  DB> --select '+/home/**' --select '-**.bak' --include '/home/**'
  DB> --exclude '**.bak' --select '["+/home/**","-**.bak"]'

Yeah, now that I think about it rsync seems to have a pretty good
system (except maybe for the implicit scanning/including stuff they
didn't implement).  One sticky point is that rdiff-backup's --exclude
syntax has been different from rsync's.  Ideally I think
rdiff-backup's --include/exclude should use the ** notation, and there
should be a separate --exclude-regexp for perl/python style regular
expressions, but this would break some uses of the old --exclude..


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