Hi Robert Nichols,
Your contribution is welcome. There is a folder with user's contribution in
rdiff-backup repositories. We could probably leave it their with some user
warning. So either submit a Pull Request in github or send it here as
attachment and will submit it for you.
https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/tree/master/tools/misc
On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 1:54 PM Robert Nichols <address@hidden>
wrote:
I do have a fairly massive (~640 lines, ~550 non-comment) shell script
that I agree is ugly, but which has worked fine for me for quite a few
years (last modified 7 years ago) and successfully purges both specific
files and entire subtrees from an rdiff-backup archive. The principal
limitations are that it does not support long_filename_data (refuses to run
if any found) and does not handle Mac resource fork metadata (ignores it).
I'll send it to anyone who wants to try it, or I can put it up for comment
and/or ridicule if someone would tell me where and how to do that. All I
can guarantee is that if it eats any babies, those will be the first babies
it has ever eaten.
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