rsync's --delete and --exclude option

Lapo Luchini lapo@lapo.it
Mon Oct 13 21:57:00 GMT 2008


David Rothenberger wrote:
> On 5/9/2008 6:45 AM, Richard Ivarson wrote:
>> When you use rsync with option --delete and --exclude (for example
>> exclude='*.bak') then rsync will exclude such files from source and
>> destination and hence also not delete *.bak files on the destination.
> There is a --delete-excluded option in rsync 3.0.2 that does just that.
> The rsync in the Cygwin distro doesn't support it, but you can build
> your own version of 3.0.2 using cygport and the attached files.

David, thanks for having filled in my (too) long hiatus.

I will now produce a new 3.0.4-1 port to upload to the servers...

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Lapo Luchini - http://lapo.it/

“In God we trust. Everybody else we verify using PGP!” (Tim Newsome)


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