restic/changelog/unreleased/issue-233
2022-03-20 13:33:08 +01:00

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Enhancement: Add negative patterns for include/exclude
If a pattern is prefixed by an exclamation mark and match a file that
was previously matched by a regular pattern, the match is cancelled.
Notably, this can be used with `--exclude-file` to cancel the
exclusion of some files.
It works similarly to `gitignore`, with the same limitation: once a
directory is excluded, it is not possible to include files inside the
directory.
Example of use (as an exclude pattern for backup):
$HOME/**/*
!$HOME/Documents
!$HOME/code
!$HOME/.emacs.d
!$HOME/games
# [...]
node_modules
*~
*.o
*.lo
*.pyc
# [...]
$HOME/code/linux/*
!$HOME/code/linux/.git
# [...]
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/233
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2311