rsync - Sep 2010 - Getting the 'hidden' .htaccess file.

I am trying to use rsync to synchronize our pre-release staging site to our
production site.

When I run the following command, it will get the other 19258 files, but it will
ignore the three .htaccess files in our site.  I have searched the internet and
can see that it is apparently somewhat tricky to get rsync to capture dot hidden
files.  I have tried every solution I have found that I understood.  Can
somebody help out this rsync newbie?

/usr/local/bin/rsync --verbose --progress --stats --compress --recursive --times
--perms --links --include=".htaccess" --delete . appprod::test

This is between two Solaris servers using the latest rsync with the remote set
up as a daemon on the appprod server, if that matters any.

TIA
Ian

On Fri 03 Sep 2010, Ian Skinner wrote:
> 
> When I run the following command, it will get the other 19258 files, but it
will ignore the three .htaccess files in our site.  I have searched the internet
and can see that it is apparently somewhat tricky to get rsync to capture dot
hidden files.  I have tried every solution I have found that I understood.  Can
somebody help out this rsync newbie?
> 
> /usr/local/bin/rsync --verbose --progress --stats --compress --recursive
--times --perms --links --include=".htaccess" --delete . appprod::test
Rsync will cheerfully include any and all files in its actions;
it doesn't care whether they start with a dot or not. No need to
--include it. They are in no way "hidden", except for the fact that
they
are not shown with ls by default or included in * (i.e. it's a userspace
issue, it's not done by the kernel).

What does it say if you explicitly rsync just the .htaccess file?
Use multiple -v options and -i .
Something like
    rsync -a -vvvvv -i path/to/.htaccess appprod::test/path/to/.htaccess


Paul