More specific includes/excludes should take priority over less specific

[Aaron Whitehouse]

I have a folder called "Videos" that includes a lot of large videos that I do not want to back up. Within this, however, is a folder called "Home Videos" that I do want to back up.

I have set "Videos" as an exclude and "/Videos/Home Videos" as an include. I expected "Home Videos" to be backed up, but it does not seem to be.

I would expect that the exclude/include status of a subdirectory would always take precedence over the exclude/include status of the parent directory.

Imagine the below directory tree ([i] meaning in the include list, [e] meaning in the exclude list):
/home/fakeuser[i]:
-Pictures
--1.img
--2.img
-Videos[e]
--DVDs
---dvd.iso
---otherrippeddvd.iso
--Home Videos[i]
---video1.iso
---video2.iso
---Fuzzy[e]
----video33.iso
----video43.iso
----Bestoftheworst[i]
-----video222.iso
-----bob.iso
-test.txt

Should include:
/home/fakeuser/Pictures/1.img
/home/fakeuser/Pictures/2.img
/home/fakeuser/Videos/Home Videos/video1.iso
/home/fakeuser/Videos/Home Videos/video2.iso
/home/fakeuser/Videos/Home Videos/Fuzzy/Bestoftheworst/video222.iso
/home/fakeuser/Videos/Home Videos/Fuzzy/Bestoftheworst/bob.iso
/home/fakeuser/test.txt

And exclude:
/home/fakeuser/Videos/DVDs/dvd.iso
/home/fakeuser/Videos/DVDs/otherrippeddvd.iso
/home/fakeuser/Videos/Home Videos/Fuzzy/video33.iso
/home/fakeuser/Videos/Home Videos/Fuzzy/video43.iso

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

BTW, thanks for all the great bugs, RFEs, and questions, Aaron! :)

[Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse)]

That's excellent news -- and so quick!

I'll look forward to testing this in the future version.