rsync - Apr 2010 - --exclude-from and a directory name that contains a hyphen

I'm having a problem with an exclude list and I wanted to run it by the
group before I cry "Bug!".  Here's the scenario:

I'm working on a script to selectively synchronize several directories with
those on a server using rsync (version 3.0.5 protocol version 30).  I am using
the --exclude-from command option, and everything works, except when a directory
I am specifying contains a hyphen.  Then I can't get a pattern match and the
directory (and all its children) will not sync.  I have tried to escape the
hyphen with a backslash, and replace it with an ampersand or a dot or an
asterisk to wild card it.  The command I am using is:

rsync -avze ssh --dry-run --exclude-from=/home/user/excl.tmp server01:/usr2/
/home/user/usr2/

Examples of excl.tmp file.  This works:
+ /gale
+ /gale/tools
+ /gale/tools/**
- *

This doesn't work (it only syncs the directory file named gale):
+ /gale
+ /gale/solver-alpha
+ /gale/solver-alpha/**
- *

Note that rsync will happily sync other files with a hyphen in the name, it just
fails to pattern match them when they are specified in the exclude file. 
Furthermore, I tried it out on another machine with rsync 2.6.8 and it works.  I
went back to my original machine and upgraded rsync to 3.0.7 and still no luck. 
I looked at Bugzilla and didn't see any items covering this, though I might
have missed something, particularly if I'm just seeing the tip of an
iceberg.  Can anyone reproduce this so I know it's not just something
I'm doing wrong?

Other details:  The local machine is running ubuntu 9.04, while the remote
server is running RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.4.  The other machine (on which
rsync 2.6.8 is installed) is also running RHEL 5.4.

John D. Wolter
Aerospace Engineer
NASA Glenn Research Center



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On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Wolter, John D. (GRC-RTE0) <
john.d.wolter at nasa.gov> wrote:
>  This doesn't work (it only syncs the directory file named gale):
> + /gale
> + /gale/solver-alpha
> + /gale/solver-alpha/**
> - *
>
That should work fine, and is unlikely to be an rsync bug.  I'd imagine
there is some slight difference between the actual dir name and the include
line.  e.g., make sure there is not a trailing space on the line that
includes the solver-alpha directory.  Make sure that the dirname exactly
matches that in both case and characters.  Make sure that there aren't any
earlier exclude rules superseding those rules (is that the only exclude
file?)

If you can't see an issue, try adding a second -v option to the transfer and
reading the "hiding" message that rsync outputs, such as:

[sender] hiding file gale/Solver-alpha because of pattern *

If there is the possibility of other "- *" rules existing, you can
tweak the
one above to be "- **" (with a superfluous '*') so you can
make sure that
you see "because of pattern **" in the output.

..wayne..
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