Bug 100861 – patch for rsync 2.6.0 cvsignore bug (-C option), taken from 2.6.1

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description awk 2005-07-30 21:22:55 UTC]

When the -C option is used with rsync (to honor exclude patterns in .cvsignore files), it's supposed to 
apply the patterns just to the subdirectory that the .cvsignore file is in, but due to a bug it applies them 
globally.

I have an app deployment script which uses rsync from a CVS checkout and this is a serious bug for me 
(imagine this with "--delete-excluded").. it was fixed in 2.6.1 but it seems gentoo is perpetually at 
2.6.0. However it's a one-line fix and I got it right out of rsync CVS.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
cd /tmp
mkdir cvs-ignore-test
mkdir cvs-ignore-test/a cvs-ignore-test/b
echo "*.txt" > cvs-ignore-test/a/.cvsignore
echo foo > cvs-ignore-test/a/unimportant.txt
echo bar > cvs-ignore-test/b/IMPORTANT.txt

rsync -avC cvs-ignore-test/ cvs-ignore-test-copy/

cat cvs-ignore-test-copy/b/IMPORTANT.txt

[Comment 1 awk 2005-07-30 21:24:35 UTC]

Created attachment 64763 [details, diff]
rsync-2.6.0-cvsignore.patch

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2005-08-01 04:41:48 UTC]

thanks, added to 2.6.0-r6