re: trailing spaces in exclude-from file

On Mon 24 Jan 2022, Paul Slootman via rsync wrote:
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>On Mon 24 Jan 2022, Jürgen Bausa via rsync wrote:
>> 
>> However, that's just a proposal. But the behavior of trailing spaces is 
>> something I guess should be corrected.
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>Is it?
>How would you otherwise specify a space that you *do* intend to be
>relevant?
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>
>Paul

Thats a good point. Seems the problem is more complex than I thought I did not think that someone would intent to have a space at the end of a directory or file name. But this can of course happen. Changing the interpretation of trailing spaces would break backwards compabilty.

So at least there should be a warning in the documentation. Maybe there is already one, but I didnt find it.

jba

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