- - The include/exclude code now allows a dir/*** directive (with 3
- trailing stars) to match both the dir itself as well as all the
- content below the dir (dir/** would not match the dir).
+ - The include/exclude code now allows a dir/*** directive (with 3 trailing
+ stars) to match both the dir itself as well as all the content below the
+ dir (dir/** would not match the dir).
+
+ - Added the --prune-empty-dirs (-m) option that makes the receiving rsync
+ discard empty chains of directories from the file-list. This makes it
+ easier to selectively copy files from a source hierarchy and end up with
+ just the directories needed to hold the resulting files.