Re: Fwd: Hdup feature suggestion

Excellent! My thoughts are as follows:

0.  I don't see this is as a problem either.
1.  regex is the way to go
1.5 I'm a little torn on this one, but I agree with you, you probably 
need to do both regular files and directories for consistency. You 
*could* do something where the user inputs a trailing "/" to indicate 
directories, and a default action of not including directories in the 
select. But this might be too much work (and side effects) for too 
little benefit.
2.  This sounds like perfect behavior
3.  (Implicit) includes trump excludes.

And I think the default name should be ".nobackup" and configurable by 
the hdup.conf file. And it should be null-length, unless you wanted to 
put explicit files/regex patterns that the user could put in that 
directory that would only apply to that directory! ;-) I'm only partly 
kidding....

Keep up the great work!

Miek Gieben wrote:

> [On 25 Oct, @ 22:00, Robert wrote in "Re: [hdup-user] Fwd: Hdup feat ..."]
> 
>>this, if you have some sort of a specification for how you want the 
>>.nobackup functionality to work.
> 
> 
> couldn't resist, so I started on making some sort of directory crawl
> tool, which is going to be folded in hdup. And maybe released as a
> seperate tool - dunno...
> 
> Some stuff to think about:
> 0.
> All include/exclude usage will result in 2 passes over the disk, one
> to collect the list for tar and then the tarring itself.
> 
> 1.
> The include/exclude stuff is going to be regexp based. Not shell
> globbing.  Should these patterns only apply to files, or also to
> directories?
> 
> 1.5
> So 'exclude = .*\.html' will exclude all *.html files, should it
> also skip dirs with the same name?
> 
> 2. 
> When including/excluding hdup will look for .nobackup files. No matter
> what, if a .nobackup is found the directory is not backupped. And
> neither does hdup descend the current dir.
> 
> 3.
> include/exclude clashes. One could conceive conflicting configuration
> options. What to do? Make an explicit include weigh heavier?
> 
> 
> My (not final answers):
> 0. 
> So what?!
> 
> 1. 
> Globbing is ancient and not consistent. Regexps are the way to go
> and more powerfull - but maybe also slower. I opt for regexps.
> 
> 1.5 
> Dunno - I think consistency is important here - so the regexp
> applies to everything; dir + files.
> 
> 2:
> I think what I said, is what hdup should do.
> 
> 3: 
> explicit include are more important than exclude. 
> 
> grtz 
>   -- Miek
> 
> PS the .nobackup files should be named .hdup_nobackup (and empty??)
>