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Improved a confusing sentence in the description of subcomponent

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include/exclude matching.
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Wayne Davison
2005-01-20 19:31:42 +00:00
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@@ -1172,7 +1172,8 @@ look at the output when using --verbose and put a / in front of the name
Note that, when using the --recursive (-r) option (which is implied by -a),
every subcomponent of
every path is visited from the top down, so include/exclude patterns get
applied recursively to each subcomponent.
applied recursively to each subcomponent's full name (e.g. to include
"/foo/bar/baz" the subcomponents "/foo" and "/foo/bar" must not be excluded).
The exclude patterns actually short-circuit the directory traversal stage
when rsync finds the files to send. If a pattern excludes a particular
parent directory, it can render a deeper include pattern ineffectual