From: Fabian Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
To: pbs-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup] docs: client: file exclusion: add note about leading slash
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 10:16:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220328081634.62024-1-f.ebner@proxmox.com> (raw)
It's not documented yet and not intuitive:
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/98810
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/107143
Signed-off-by: Fabian Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
---
docs/backup-client.rst | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/backup-client.rst b/docs/backup-client.rst
index 3af40b3a..b115b368 100644
--- a/docs/backup-client.rst
+++ b/docs/backup-client.rst
@@ -175,6 +175,9 @@ Lines ending in ``/`` match only on directories.
The directory containing the ``.pxarexclude`` file is considered to be the root of
the given patterns. It is only possible to match files in this directory and its subdirectories.
+.. Note:: Patterns without a leading ``/`` will also match in subdirectories,
+ while patterns with a leading ``/`` will only match in the current directory.
+
``\`` is used to escape special glob characters.
``?`` matches any single character.
``*`` matches any character, including an empty string.
--
2.30.2
next reply other threads:[~2022-03-28 8:24 UTC|newest]
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2022-03-28 8:16 Fabian Ebner [this message]
2022-04-06 15:01 ` [pbs-devel] applied: " Thomas Lamprecht
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