Always include "." when processing exclude lists. This avoids confusion

when people do --exclude "*".  Also, add an example to the man page that
shows explicitly including parent directories when itemizing specific
paths to include followed by --exclude "*".

diff --git a/exclude.c b/exclude.c
index 109ee8d..35fa307 100644 (file)
--- a/exclude.c
+++ b/exclude.c
@@ -160,6 +160,10 @@ int check_exclude(char *name,struct exclude_struct **local_exclude_list,
 {
        int n;
 
+       if (name && (name[0] == '.') && !name[1])
+               /* never exclude '.', even if somebody does --exclude '*' */
+               return 0;
+
        if (exclude_list) {
                for (n=0; exclude_list[n]; n++)
                        if (check_one_exclude(name,exclude_list[n],st))

diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo
index ec8ada1..0885dd6 100644 (file)
--- a/rsync.yo
+++ b/rsync.yo
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 mailto(rsync-bugs@samba.org)
-manpage(rsync)(1)(11 Nov 1998)()()
+manpage(rsync)(1)(24 Nov 1998)()()
 manpagename(rsync)(faster, flexible replacement for rcp)
 manpagesynopsis()
 
@@ -637,7 +637,10 @@ itemize(
   it() --exclude "/foo" would exclude a file in the base directory called foo
   it() --exclude "foo/" would exclude any directory called foo
   it() --include "*/" --include "*.c" --exclude "*" would include all 
-  directories and C source files.
+  directories and C source files
+  it() --include "foo/" --include "foo/bar.c" --exclude "*" would include
+  only foo/bar.c (the foo/ directory must be explicitly included or
+  it would be excluded by the "*")
 )
 
 manpagesection(DIAGNOSTICS)

diff --git a/rsyncd.conf.yo b/rsyncd.conf.yo
index 6aae929..2571f29 100644 (file)
--- a/rsyncd.conf.yo
+++ b/rsyncd.conf.yo
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 mailto(rsync-bugs@samba.org)
-manpage(rsyncd.conf)(5)(18 Nov 1998)()()
+manpage(rsyncd.conf)(5)(24 Nov 1998)()()
 manpagename(rsyncd.conf)(configuration file for rsync server)
 manpagesynopsis()