rsync - May 2002 - exclude vs include

My understanding of the man page description of --exclude vs. --include
is that the list of these is kept in order, and file names are searched
against these parameters in that order for the first that matches and
that one makes the decision.  It doesn't seem to be working exactly as
expected.  But there is a factor involved that's making it unclear,
which is whether or not *'s should be appended or not.

In the following I am trying to have only selected subdirectories from
the "people" directory included, and all other subdirectories from
there
not included.  The problem is, I either get _all_ the "people" trees,
or none.  I've tried all the possible ways to append to each name, trying
nothing, "/", "/*", and "/**".  Also, I've
tried putting the exclude for
"people" both before and after (I thought the after position should
work)
the includes for the 4 subdirectories.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong here?

This is how it gets run from the script (the -n is so I can test it
without actully pulling down files).  In this case I have appended
the "/**" to each include/exclude name.  Is it obvious to you want I
want to do and am I expressing it correctly?

rsync   '-anv' \
        '-B65536' \
        '--partial' \
        '--stats' \
        '--exclude' '*.gz.sign' \
        '--exclude' '*.gz' \
        '--exclude' '/Historic/**' \
        '--exclude' '/SillySounds/**' \
        '--exclude' '/crypto/**' \
        '--include' '/people/andrea/**' \
        '--include' '/people/marcelo/**' \
        '--include' '/people/rgooch/**' \
        '--include' '/people/riel/**' \
        '--exclude' '/people/**' \
        '--exclude' '/ports/**' \
        '--exclude' '/projects/**' \
        '--exclude' '/testing/**' \
        '--exclude' '/uemacs/**' \
        '--exclude' '/v1.0/**' \
        '--exclude' '/v1.1/**' \
        '--exclude' '/v1.2/**' \
        '--exclude' '/v1.3/**' \
        '--exclude' '/v2.0/**' \
        '--exclude' '/v2.1/**' \
        '--exclude' '/v2.2/**' \
        '--exclude' '/v2.3/**' \
        rsync.kernel.org::pub/linux/kernel/ \
        /home/rsync/mirrors/linux-kernel/rsync.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/

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| Phil Howard - KA9WGN |   Dallas   | http://linuxhomepage.com/ |
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Yes, rsync applies the patterns in order.

You need to include both the people subdirectories and all the files under
them.  Either
        '--include' '/people/andrea/' \
        '--include' '/people/andrea/**' \
or
        '--include' '/people/andrea**' \
should work.

- Dave Dykstra


On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 10:39:47AM -0500, Phil Howard
wrote:
> My understanding of the man page description of --exclude vs. --include
> is that the list of these is kept in order, and file names are searched
> against these parameters in that order for the first that matches and
> that one makes the decision.  It doesn't seem to be working exactly as
> expected.  But there is a factor involved that's making it unclear,
> which is whether or not *'s should be appended or not.
> 
> In the following I am trying to have only selected subdirectories from
> the "people" directory included, and all other subdirectories
from there
> not included.  The problem is, I either get _all_ the "people"
trees,
> or none.  I've tried all the possible ways to append to each name,
trying
> nothing, "/", "/*", and "/**".  Also,
I've tried putting the exclude for
> "people" both before and after (I thought the after position
should work)
> the includes for the 4 subdirectories.
> 
> Anyone know what I'm doing wrong here?
> 
> This is how it gets run from the script (the -n is so I can test it
> without actully pulling down files).  In this case I have appended
> the "/**" to each include/exclude name.  Is it obvious to you
want I
> want to do and am I expressing it correctly?
> 
> rsync   '-anv' \
>         '-B65536' \
>         '--partial' \
>         '--stats' \
>         '--exclude' '*.gz.sign' \
>         '--exclude' '*.gz' \
>         '--exclude' '/Historic/**' \
>         '--exclude' '/SillySounds/**' \
>         '--exclude' '/crypto/**' \
>         '--include' '/people/andrea/**' \
>         '--include' '/people/marcelo/**' \
>         '--include' '/people/rgooch/**' \
>         '--include' '/people/riel/**' \
>         '--exclude' '/people/**' \
>         '--exclude' '/ports/**' \
>         '--exclude' '/projects/**' \
>         '--exclude' '/testing/**' \
>         '--exclude' '/uemacs/**' \
>         '--exclude' '/v1.0/**' \
>         '--exclude' '/v1.1/**' \
>         '--exclude' '/v1.2/**' \
>         '--exclude' '/v1.3/**' \
>         '--exclude' '/v2.0/**' \
>         '--exclude' '/v2.1/**' \
>         '--exclude' '/v2.2/**' \
>         '--exclude' '/v2.3/**' \
>         rsync.kernel.org::pub/linux/kernel/ \
>         /home/rsync/mirrors/linux-kernel/rsync.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/
> 
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> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> | Phil Howard - KA9WGN |   Dallas   | http://linuxhomepage.com/ |
> | phil-nospam@ipal.net | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/     |
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
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