rsync exclude according to .gitignore & .hgignore & svn:ignore like --filter=:C

Question

Rsync includes a nifty option --cvs-exclude to “ignore files in the same way CVS does”, but CVS has been obsolete for years. Is there any way to make it also ex

Answer 1

Instead of creating exclude filters, you can use git ls-files to select each file to rsync:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

if [[ ! $# -eq 2 ]] ; then
    echo "Usage: $(basename $0)  "
    exit 1
fi

cd $1
versioned=$(git ls-files --exclude-standard)
rsync --verbose --links --times --relative --protect-args ${versioned} $2

This works even though git ls-files returns newline separated paths. Probably won't work if you have versioned files with spaces in the filenames.