Commit 78be8e0f authored by Wayne Davison's avatar Wayne Davison

Improved the -F, --exclude-from, and --include-from sections.

parent a5b786d8
......@@ -889,14 +889,14 @@ See the FILTER RULES section for detailed information on this option.
dit(bf(-F)) The bf(-F) option is a shorthand for adding two bf(--filter) rules to
your command. The first time it is used is a shorthand for this rule:
quote(tt( --filter=': /.rsync-filter'))
quote(tt( --filter='dir-merge /.rsync-filter'))
This tells rsync to look for per-directory .rsync-filter files that have
been sprinkled through the hierarchy and use their rules to filter the
files in the transfer. If bf(-F) is repeated, it is a shorthand for this
rule:
quote(tt( --filter='- .rsync-filter'))
quote(tt( --filter='exclude .rsync-filter'))
This filters out the .rsync-filter files themselves from the transfer.
......@@ -909,11 +909,10 @@ the full rule-parsing syntax of normal filter rules.
See the FILTER RULES section for detailed information on this option.
dit(bf(--exclude-from=FILE)) This option is similar to the bf(--exclude)
option, but instead it adds all exclude patterns listed in the file
FILE to the exclude list. Blank lines in FILE and lines starting with
';' or '#' are ignored.
If em(FILE) is bf(-) the list will be read from standard input.
dit(bf(--exclude-from=FILE)) This option is related to the bf(--exclude)
option, but it specifies a FILE that contains exclude patterns (one per line).
Blank lines in the file and lines starting with ';' or '#' are ignored.
If em(FILE) is bf(-), the list will be read from standard input.
dit(bf(--include=PATTERN)) This option is a simplified form of the
bf(--filter) option that defaults to an include rule and does not allow
......@@ -921,12 +920,13 @@ the full rule-parsing syntax of normal filter rules.
See the FILTER RULES section for detailed information on this option.
dit(bf(--include-from=FILE)) This specifies a list of include patterns
from a file.
If em(FILE) is "-" the list will be read from standard input.
dit(bf(--include-from=FILE)) This option is related to the bf(--include)
option, but it specifies a FILE that contains include patterns (one per line).
Blank lines in the file and lines starting with ';' or '#' are ignored.
If em(FILE) is bf(-), the list will be read from standard input.
dit(bf(--files-from=FILE)) Using this option allows you to specify the
exact list of files to transfer (as read from the specified FILE or "-"
exact list of files to transfer (as read from the specified FILE or bf(-)
for standard input). It also tweaks the default behavior of rsync to make
transferring just the specified files and directories easier:
......@@ -1347,7 +1347,7 @@ into the batch file without having to flow over the wire to the receiver
dit(bf(--read-batch=FILE)) Apply all of the changes stored in FILE, a
file previously generated by bf(--write-batch).
If em(FILE) is "-" the batch data will be read from standard input.
If em(FILE) is bf(-), the batch data will be read from standard input.
See the "BATCH MODE" section for details.
dit(bf(--protocol=NUM)) Force an older protocol version to be used. This
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