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authorWayne Davison <wayned@samba.org>2003-07-30 06:12:33 +0000
committerWayne Davison <wayned@samba.org>2003-07-30 06:12:33 +0000
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Changed the "**" description to reflect its no-longer-buggy behavior.
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diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo
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@@ -916,15 +916,15 @@ itemize(
*?[ then expression matching is applied using the shell filename
matching rules. Otherwise a simple string match is used.
- it() if the pattern includes a double asterisk "**" then all wildcards in
- the pattern will match slashes, otherwise they will stop at slashes.
+ it() the double asterisk pattern "**" will match slashes while a
+ single asterisk pattern "*" will stop at slashes.
it() if the pattern contains a / (not counting a trailing /) or a "**"
then it is matched against the full filename, including any leading
directory. If the pattern doesn't contain a / or a "**", then it is
matched only against the final component of the filename. Again,
remember that the algorithm is applied recursively so "full filename" can
- actually be any portion of a path.
+ actually be any portion of a path below the starting directory.
it() if the pattern starts with "+ " (a plus followed by a space)
then it is always considered an include pattern, even if specified as