Mats Blomstrand wrote:

> ( For the record: Paul is using the "list" alternative to specify
> excludepatterns and i was trying use the "file" alternative which turned
> out to have a bug. )


No.
Careful reading of the manpage reveals:

exclude list "somestring" : somestring is the name of a file
      on the client that contains a LIST of patterns.
exclude file "somestring" : somestring is a file (or pattern) to
      be excluded.

exclude "somestring" : defaults to FILE

So I was using the "file" alternative in my example.


Yes, in some sense you would expect the reverse...



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