rsync betwen存储库中git无法跟踪的文件

Question

Say I have a git directory in path_A in a machine A with .gitignore files all over the place. I have a copy of this repository in a machine in path_B in a different machine B .

I would like to rsync all files from path_A to path_B that are not tracked by git so that both machines have effectively the same files (eg including binaries). Is there a relatively simple way of doing this?

Answer 1

You can give 2 arguments to rsync - first exclude all files: --exclude="*" then use include-from with the .gitignore file as argument: --include-from='.gitignore'

The first exclusion makes rsync ignore all by default. The latter inclusion reads include patterns from a file called .gitignore, which leads to all gitignored files being included in the rsync.