Re: Qn about rsnapshot/rsync directory filter rules

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On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 14:49 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 20Feb2011 22:22, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> | The include/exclude rules are just passed through to rsync. The man page
> | for rsync has a fairly extensive discussion of the syntax. I don't see a
> | direct statement that the rules are evaluated in strict order, but it
> | seems natural.
> 
> They're just like ACLs: first match applies. From the man page, undef
> "FILTER RULES":
> 
>   As  the  list  of  files/directories to transfer is built, rsync checks
>   each name to be transferred against the list  of include/exclude  pat-
>   terns in turn, and the first matching pattern is acted on

Good. It's what I supposed but hadn't seen in the man page.

poc

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