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Antoine Beaupré 8e36075fe9 commit usage files directly into git
the generation of those files was causing us way too much pain to
justify automatically generating them all the time.

those will have to be re-generated with `build_api` or `build_usage`
as appropriate, for example when function signatures or commandline
flags change.

see #384
2015-11-13 10:42:52 -05:00

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.. _borg_patterns:
borg help patterns
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::
Exclude patterns use a variant of shell pattern syntax, with '*' matching any
number of characters, '?' matching any single character, '[...]' matching any
single character specified, including ranges, and '[!...]' matching any
character not specified. For the purpose of these patterns, the path
separator ('\' for Windows and '/' on other systems) is not treated
specially. For a path to match a pattern, it must completely match from
start to end, or must match from the start to just before a path separator.
Except for the root path, paths will never end in the path separator when
matching is attempted. Thus, if a given pattern ends in a path separator, a
'*' is appended before matching is attempted. Patterns with wildcards should
be quoted to protect them from shell expansion.
Examples:
# Exclude '/home/user/file.o' but not '/home/user/file.odt':
$ borg create -e '*.o' backup /
# Exclude '/home/user/junk' and '/home/user/subdir/junk' but
# not '/home/user/importantjunk' or '/etc/junk':
$ borg create -e '/home/*/junk' backup /
# Exclude the contents of '/home/user/cache' but not the directory itself:
$ borg create -e /home/user/cache/ backup /
# The file '/home/user/cache/important' is *not* backed up:
$ borg create -e /home/user/cache/ backup / /home/user/cache/important