Commit c575f8ce authored by Wayne Davison's avatar Wayne Davison

Document the new p (perishable) filter modifier.

parent 53039410
......@@ -1086,16 +1086,17 @@ quote(tt( rsync -avR --rsync-path="cd /a/b && rsync" hst:c/d /e/))
dit(bf(-C, --cvs-exclude)) This is a useful shorthand for excluding a
broad range of files that you often don't want to transfer between
systems. It uses the same algorithm that CVS uses to determine if
systems. It uses a similar algorithm to CVS to determine if
a file should be ignored.
The exclude list is initialized to:
The exclude list is initialized to exclude the following items (these
initial items are marked as perishable -- see the FILTER RULES section):
quote(quote(tt(RCS SCCS CVS CVS.adm RCSLOG cvslog.* tags TAGS .make.state
.nse_depinfo *~ #* .#* ,* _$* *$ *.old *.bak *.BAK *.orig *.rej
.del-* *.a *.olb *.o *.obj *.so *.exe *.Z *.elc *.ln core .svn/)))
.del-* *.a *.olb *.o *.obj *.so *.exe *.Z *.elc *.ln core .svn/ .bzr/)))
then files listed in a $HOME/.cvsignore are added to the list and any
then, files listed in a $HOME/.cvsignore are added to the list and any
files listed in the CVSIGNORE environment variable (all cvsignore names
are delimited by whitespace).
......@@ -1967,8 +1968,8 @@ itemization(
down.)
it() a trailing "dir_name/***" will match both the directory (as if
"dir_name/" had been specified) and all the files in the directory
(as if "dir_name/**" had been specified). (This behavior is new for
version 2.6.7.)
(as if "dir_name/**" had been specified). This behavior was added in
version 2.6.7.
)
Note that, when using the bf(--recursive) (bf(-r)) option (which is implied by
......@@ -2083,13 +2084,13 @@ itemization(
The following modifiers are accepted after a "+" or "-":
itemization(
it() A "/" specifies that the include/exclude rule should be matched
it() A bf(/) specifies that the include/exclude rule should be matched
against the absolute pathname of the current item. For example,
"-/ /etc/passwd" would exclude the passwd file any time the transfer
was sending files from the "/etc" directory, and "-/ subdir/foo"
would always exclude "foo" when it is in a dir named "subdir", even
if "foo" is at the root of the current transfer.
it() A "!" specifies that the include/exclude should take effect if
it() A bf(!) specifies that the include/exclude should take effect if
the pattern fails to match. For instance, "-! */" would exclude all
non-directories.
it() A bf(C) is used to indicate that all the global CVS-exclude rules
......@@ -2106,6 +2107,11 @@ itemization(
being deleted. See the bf(s) modifier for more info. See also the
protect (P) and risk (R) rules, which are an alternate way to
specify receiver-side includes/excludes.
it() A bf(p) indicates that a rule is perishable, meaning that it is
ignored in directories that are being deleted. For instance, the bf(-C)
option's default rules that exclude things like "CVS" and "*.o" are
marked as perishable, and will not prevent a directory that was removed
on the source from being deleted on the destination.
)
Per-directory rules are inherited in all subdirectories of the directory
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