mirror/borg
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/borgbackup/borg.git synced 2025-02-21 13:47:16 +00:00
Code Issues Releases Wiki Activity

Revert "docs: excluded parent dir's metadata can't restore. (#6062)"

Browse source 
This reverts commit 7e746e10e7.

The commit was modifying auto-generated files instead of their sources.
See the next commit for the fix.
This commit is contained in:
Andrey Bienkowski 2022-01-23 22:32:15 +03:00
parent 8b61fd308c
commit 1911c81cbb
2 changed files with 1 additions and 11 deletions
Show stats Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

6
docs/usage/extract.rst.inc
View file

@ -118,8 +118,4 @@ pass over the archive metadata.
.. note::
Currently, extract always writes into the current working directory ("."),
so make sure you ``cd`` to the right place before calling ``borg extract``.
When parent directories are not extracted (because of using file/directory selection
or any other reason), borg can not restore parent directories' metadata, e.g. owner,
group, permission, etc.
so make sure you ``cd`` to the right place before calling ``borg extract``.

6
docs/usage/help.rst.inc
View file

@ -167,12 +167,6 @@ Examples::
a directory, it won't recurse into it and won't discover any potential matches for
include rules below that directory.
.. note::
It's possible that a sub-directory/file is matched while parent directories are not.
In that case, parent directories are not backed up thus their user, group, permission,
etc. can not be restored.
Note that the default pattern style for ``--pattern`` and ``--patterns-from`` is
shell style (`sh:`), so those patterns behave similar to rsync include/exclude
patterns. The pattern style can be set via the `P` prefix.