From 82352add2263d91a5877c974c795c1c39224c5bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alberto Berti Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:30:49 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Added documentation for '--exclude' and friends cli backup command. --- docs/frontends/CLI.txt | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/frontends/CLI.txt b/docs/frontends/CLI.txt index 4ea6cf1e..4fbb7e5c 100644 --- a/docs/frontends/CLI.txt +++ b/docs/frontends/CLI.txt @@ -347,6 +347,45 @@ tahoe backup ~ work:backups directories with the previous backup when nothing has changed, to run faster and to reduce the number of directories created. +tahoe backup --exclude=*~ ~ work:backups + + Same as above, but this time the backup process will ignore any + filename that will end with '~'. '--exclude' will accept any standard + unix shell-style wildcards, have a look at + http://docs.python.org/library/fnmatch.html for a more detailed + reference. You may give multiple '--exclude' options. Please pay + attention that the pattern will be matched against any level of the + directory tree, it's still impossible to specify absolute path exclusions. + +tahoe backup --exclude-from=/path/to/filename ~ work:backups + + '--exclude-from' is similar to '--exclude', but reads exclusion + patterns from '/path/to/filename', one per line. + +tahoe backup --exclude-vcs ~ work:backups + + This command will ignore any known file or directory that's used by + version control systems to store metadata. The list of the exluded + names is: + + * CVS + * RCS + * SCCS + * .git + * .gitignore + * .cvsignore + * .svn + * .arch-ids + * {arch} + * =RELEASE-ID + * =meta-update + * =update + * .bzr + * .bzrignore + * .bzrtags + * .hg + * .hgignore + * _darcs == Virtual Drive Maintenance == -- 2.45.2