Support '#' and ';' comments in exclude files. It would actually not

[rsync/rsync.git] / exclude.c

diff --git a/exclude.c b/exclude.c
index 35fa307..15dc310 100644 (file)
--- a/exclude.c
+++ b/exclude.c
@@ -234,7 +234,12 @@ struct exclude_struct **make_exclude_list(char *fname,
                int l = strlen(line);
                if (l && line[l-1] == '\n') l--;
                line[l] = 0;
-               if (line[0]) add_exclude_list(line,&list,include);
+               if (line[0] && (line[0] != ';') && (line[0] != '#')) {
+                       /* Skip lines starting with semicolon or pound.
+                          It probably wouldn't cause any harm to not skip
+                            them but there's no need to save them. */
+                       add_exclude_list(line,&list,include);
+               }
        }
        fclose(f);
        return list;