Re: Mangled example(s) in the "Usage examples" page?

[email protected] Sun, 29 Jan 2023 22:51:19 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rdiff-backup.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2023-01-16 22:07, Eric Zolf ewl+rdiffbackup-at-lavar.de 
|rdiff-backup-users| wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 16/01/2023 03:48, [email protected] wrote:
>> It appears that the examples to "lists the times of the available 
>> versions of the file ..." in section 6 (Getting information about the 
>> backup directory) in the "Usage examples" page 
>> (https://rdiff-backup.net/examples.html#getting_information_about_the_backup_directory) 
>> have gotten mangled.  The two examples (old and new) look like
>>
>> rdiff-backup --list-increments out-dir/filerdiff-backup -l out-dir/file
>> rdiff-backup list increments out-dir/filerdiff-backup -l out-dir/file
>>
>> which don't look right and the old example (I only have 2.0.5 
>> installed on the machine where I need this) doesn't seem to work when 
>> I try to modify it for the file I'm looking for.
>
> I've fixed the mangling in 
> https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/pull/831/files
>
> Thanks for reporting,
> Eric
>

Thanks Eric.

It looks like there are two other mangled example.  The first and last 
commands in the second code block in section 3 (Restoring) look similar 
to the one you fixed.