Re: [Duplicity-talk] Why do we have --include-filelist (as opposed to just globbing)?

[Remy van Elst]

I do often use the following --exclude and --include paths:

duplicity  --full-if-older-than 14D --include="/home" --include="/etc"
--include="/var/www" --exclude="**" /

Mostly because I find this quicker to setup than a filelist and such.

On 01/09/2015 07:29 PM, Marc Evans wrote:
> I use --exclude **/some/path** and --exclude-filelist /some/file
> routinely. As long as that functionality remains in some form, I am content.
> 
> - Marc
> 
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Aaron Whitehouse
>> <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>     We've had a couple of bugs recently that only affect
>>     --include/exclude-filelist but not --include/exclude-globbing-filelist.
>>     One reason for this is that the code paths for the two different types
>>     of filelists are separate in selection.py. I have been contemplating
>>     trying to simplify this file a bit to keep things together until the
>>     globs are interpreted. Before I do that, I wanted to check that there is
>>     actually a use case for filelists that *aren't* globbing. I have often
>>     used globbing filelists for normal paths without issues. The only
>>     advantage that I can see in a non-globbing filelist would be if you had
>>     filenames that had globbing characters in them, but we probably want a
>>     way to escape such characters in globbing filelists anyway (if there
>>     isn't already), as otherwise people with such files couldn't take
>>     advantage of the benefits of globbing filelists.
>>
>>     I'm wondering if the more sensible answer is to essentially get rid of
>>     include and exclude filelists altogether (we could obviously redirect
>>     the option for the short term etc. and may want to rename globbing
>>     filelists to just be filelists if there aren't any others).
>>
>>     I would be interested in your thoughts.
>>
>>     Kind regards,
>>
>>     Aaron
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