From 7306c726a966874f02b3f66e22e2524829c4e4bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bescoto Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 00:19:10 +0000 Subject: Added changelog and man page entry for restore selection patch git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup/trunk@498 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109 --- rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG | 5 +++++ rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 | 7 ++++--- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG b/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG index 2c4e9cd..911ddc2 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG +++ b/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG @@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ Fixed handling of (lack of) daylight savings time. Earlier bug would cause some files to be marked an hour later. Thanks to Troels Arvin and Farkas Levente for bug report. +Altered file selection when restoring so excluded files will not be +deleted from the target dir. The old behavior was technically +intended and documented but not very convenient. Thanks to Oliver +Kaltenecker for bug report. + New in v0.13.3 (2003/10/14) --------------------------- diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 index 4e14812..2c6c537 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 +++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 @@ -524,9 +524,10 @@ and Each file selection condition either matches or doesn't match a given file. A given file is excluded by the file selection system exactly when the first matching file selection condition specifies that the -file be excluded; otherwise the file is included. If a file is -excluded, rdiff-backup acts as if that file does not exist in the -source directory. +file be excluded; otherwise the file is included. When backing up, if +a file is excluded, rdiff-backup acts as if that file does not exist +in the source directory. When restoring, an excluded file is +considered not to exist in either the source or target directories. For instance, .PP -- cgit v1.2.1