[Rdiff-backup-bugs] [bug #15310] Feature Request: clarify documentation

[Daniel Webb]

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                 Summary: Feature Request: clarify documentation
                 Project: rdiff-backup
            Submitted by: danielwebb
            Submitted on: Thu 12/29/05 at 06:50
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open

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In the man page, I couldn't find anything about the following two points:

1. What is the significance of a leading '/' in patterns?  In rsync, it
means
the root of the transfer, not the root of the filesystem.

2. What is the significance of a trailing '/' in patterns?  In rsync, it
means
match a directory but not a file.

Since rdiff-backup is using a pattern syntax "similar to (but different
from)"
to rsync, it would be good to spell out what those differences are if it's
not
unecessarily complex to do so.  I have no idea what they are or I would send
a
patch.







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