Re: Using hdup 2.0.0

[On 11 Nov, @ 17:50, Boris wrote in "Re: [hdup-user] Using hdup 2.0 ..."]
> On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 15:54 +0100, Miek Gieben wrote:
> > yes, exactly, the / is in no way special .
> 
> I see, I was mistaken about / being special at the beginning of the
> pattern.  It does not force it to the root of the filesystem.  ^/ should
> do that.  That's better than I thought, actually.
> 
> The / at the end is only very slightly special - it causes a "Now
> Leaving" message to be output with the -VV flag. Without the trailing /
> there is no message but the directory is still excluded, which confused
> me the first few times through.  (And of course without the trailing /
> you could catch a non-directory file of the same name, but that follows
> from the "just match against the pathname" rule, if you imagine all
> directories being written with their trailing / when they're compared
> against the regexp).

it worth thinking about this... right now it's like this:
if the pattern ENDS in a / it is only applied to a directory, all
other patterns are applied to files.

I will look into this, because when I look at the code I cannot see
this happening...

Btw, a new hdup2.0.0 is up on the website in which the incremental
backup stuff is working again. It should also be faster, 'cause there 
isn't a 'lstat' in there anymore for every file/dir encountered.

grtz Miek