+ /* Note we need to check delete_excluded here in addition to
+ * the code in parse_rule_tok() because some rules may have
+ * been added before we found the --delete-excluded option.
+ * We must also elide any CVS merge-file rules to avoid a
+ * backward compatibility problem, and we elide any no-prefix
+ * merge files as an optimization (since they can only have
+ * include/exclude rules). */