rsync - Jan 2003 - Help with CVS related include pattern

I'm trying to use rsync to make a local copy of only
a subset of a directory tree: all directories, and all
files within "CVS/" directories, but nothing else.

I thought this might work:

  rsync -av --include '*/' --include 'CVS/*' --exclude
'*' src src_cvs

It does recursively copy all directories (including CVS directories),
but it doesn't copy the files within the CVS directories.

What am I missing?  I'm using rsync 2.5.5, and I see the behavior
on both Solaris and Cygwin.

Thanks!

-David

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:30:30PM -0500, David Eisner
wrote:
> I thought this might work:
> 
>   rsync -av --include '*/' --include 'CVS/*' --exclude
'*' src src_cvs
If things were working correctly, yes, that would indeed work.  The
problem is that the 'CVS/*' item has an interior slash, and rsync
currently interprets this as being anchored (i.e. as '/CVS/*').

Use this command to work around the problem:

  rsync -av --include '*/' --include '**/CVS/*' --exclude
'*' src src_cvs

This should work in your case even though (a) "**/..." doesn't
match in
the root of the transfer (which won't affect you unless you change the
"src" to "src/"), and (b) the trailing "*" gets
treated like "**" (which
should have no ill effects when transferring CVS dirs since they don't
tend to have subdirs).

A previous patch of mine that replaces the matching code with something
that properly interprets "**" and "*" in the same item and
also properly
floats an unanchored match term with an interior slash would have worked
as expected with your original command.  I hope to get this fix into
rsync eventually, but we've been in a "let's release soon"
mode for
quite a while, and I haven't wanted to commit such a big change in the
current release cycle.

..wayne..