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Re: rsync's --delete and --exclude option
- From: Lapo Luchini <lapo at lapo dot it>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:55:11 +0200
- Subject: Re: rsync's --delete and --exclude option
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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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