From: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 11:23:51 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: a leading / in a pattern now means "use a absolute path match". This
X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/commitdiff_plain/0944563eb945f15023fd64bdc8f767a95dce4011

a leading / in a pattern now means "use a absolute path match". This
allows you to exclude root directories without excluding
subdirectories of the same name.
---

diff --git a/exclude.c b/exclude.c
index 83c0b39b..7504f968 100644
--- a/exclude.c
+++ b/exclude.c
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ static int check_one_exclude(char *name,char *pattern)
 
   if (!name[0]) return 0;
 
+  if (*pattern == '/' && *name != '/') pattern++;
+
   if (is_regex(pattern)) {
     if (fnmatch(pattern, name, 0) == 0)
       return 1;