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diff --git a/bugs/multiple___34__exclude__34___in_configuration_fails.mdwn b/bugs/multiple___34__exclude__34___in_configuration_fails.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 6201a06..0000000 --- a/bugs/multiple___34__exclude__34___in_configuration_fails.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,31 +0,0 @@ -The documentation for "exclude" says that it could be used multiple times: - ->--exclude=EXCLUDE -> regular expression for pathnames to exclude from backup (can be used multiple times) - -It works when used multiple times on the command line. However, when using a configuration with: - - [config] - exclude = /foo - exclude = /bar - exclude = /baz - -...only the last item "/baz" is actually excluded from the backup. - ---- - -The documentation doesn't actually say this anywhere (oops, sorry), so you couldn't know: the right way of doing that in the config file is to use one exclude line and separate values with commas (spaces optional). - - [config] - exclude = /foo, /bar, /baz - -That should work. - -Using multiple exclude-lines in the config would be better, but Python's ConfigParser library doesn't really deal well with that. - -I'll mark this bug closed when the obnam manpage explains how to do this with config files. - ---liw - -It's now in the manual page in bzr and fix will be included in the next -release. [[done]] --liw |