Re: Question around of remote description

Hi,

once again thanks for the all the good feedback. As said, we keep the
complicated pattern matching for the description, allowing to escape colons.

Thanks, Eric

On 18/06/2020 05:20, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 6/17/20 1:15 AM, Eric L. Zolf wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> in the course of the review of PR #404 we came to challenge the quite
>> complex quoting rules allowed when you backup to/from a remote location.
>>
>> Our question is if anybody is relying on those (too) complex quoting
>> rules to make their backup work? Else it'll allow us to radically
>> simplify the code.
>>
>> More details: if you backup to/from a remote site, the description is of
>> the form `host::path` (e.g. `rdiff-backup /home
>> myuser@myhost::/srv/backup/homebak`), and the current quoting allows to
>> have the double colons (::) somewhere in the `host` or `path` part of
>> the remote description. And the question is if anybody knows of a
>> concrete use case for this possibility?
> 
> On my CentOS 6 system, "locate :: | wc -l" returns 2544, all of which
> are under /usr/share/man. While it is inconceivable that I would ever
> have one of those names in a backup source or destination, it is quite
> possible that I might want to restore one of those files.
>