bugrdiff-backup - Bugs: bug #15310, Feature Request: clarify...

 
 

bug #15310: Feature Request: clarify documentation

Submitted by:  Daniel Webb <danielwebb>
Submitted on:  Thu 29 Dec 2005 06:50:49 AM UTC  
 
Category: NoneSeverity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: NoneStatus: Fixed
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Thu 29 Dec 2005 08:31:17 PM UTC, comment #1:

Trailing backslashes have no significance (I always thought that was a bad "feature" of rsync). Leading backslashes match the root, like they almost always do in unix.

There are lots of differences from rsync, so I don't think it would be useful to list every difference (and I haven't used rsync in a while). I added this patch to the man page, which I hope helps:

http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewcvs/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1?root=rdiff-backup&r1=1.65.2.4&r2=1.65.2.5

Benedict Escoto <bescoto>
Project Administrator
Thu 29 Dec 2005 06:50:49 AM UTC, original submission:

In the man page, I couldn't find anything about the following two points:

1. What is the significance of a leading '/' in patterns? In rsync, it means
the root of the transfer, not the root of the filesystem.

2. What is the significance of a trailing '/' in patterns? In rsync, it means
match a directory but not a file.

Since rdiff-backup is using a pattern syntax "similar to (but different from)"
to rsync, it would be good to spell out what those differences are if it's not
unecessarily complex to do so. I have no idea what they are or I would send a
patch.

Daniel Webb <danielwebb>

 

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