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Date:      Mon, 1 Feb 1999 11:38:53 +0100
From:      "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <rohrbach@nacamar.net>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 'cpdup' program, and question
Message-ID:  <19990201113853.D13327@nacamar.net>
In-Reply-To: <199901261723.JAA19851@apollo.backplane.com>; from Matthew Dillon on Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 09:23:41AM -0800
References:  <20657.917338610@zippy.cdrom.com> <199901260830.AAA14635@apollo.backplane.com> <36ADAA43.4B383143@newsguy.com> <199901261723.JAA19851@apollo.backplane.com>

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Matthew Dillon (dillon@apollo.backplane.com) @ Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 09:23:41AM -0800:
> 
> :
> :Does it support command-line passed "ignore" files, instead of
> :.cpignore? (I prefer to have all these things in one place...)
> 
>     If you mean can you have a single ignore file containing the relative
>     or full paths of the files/directories to ignore, the answer is not
>     at the moment.  I see the utility, but it would also be extremely
>     dangerous.  You can change the cpignore filename that cpdup looks for
>     in each directory, though.
> 
>     Having .cpignore files in the source directories directly is a safety
>     mechanism.  At BEST we even 'chflags schg .cpignore' the most critical 
>     files.
> 
>     It may not be necessary for me to be that paranoid now that deletions
>     are confirmed by default ( they aren't in the version BEST was using ).
> 
> :Does it support patterns in .cpignore?
> 
>     Simple */? patterns.  *NOT* regex.
> 

how about supporting "standard" semfiles ala .notar, perhaps configurable
filenames. something like "IgnoreFiles .notar .nocp .nolife .nothing" and
dirs with their subtrees will be ignored in copying (might come in handy
with replicating server prototype filesystems).

/k

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