Hello,

I'm probably missing something (apologies if so), but this has worked
for me for years, and starting from 3.0.0pre5 has stopped working in a
way that smells of some kind of bug.

To reproduce the (possible) bug, set up the following scene.

Remote host/directory:     remote_host:/some/dir
Local host:                current directory containing file `foo'

(I'm assuming working passwordless ssh connection between local and
remote host)



From the directory containing the file foo I issue the following command:

  rsync -e ssh  -r --include='/foo' --exclude='*' ./ remote_host:/some/dir


Now: for versions <=3.0.0pre4 this copies foo to the remote host, but
for versions >=3.0.0pre5, foo is not copied any more.

Running the command in verbose mode does not throw any light into my
(lack of) knowledge:

  rsync -e ssh  -rvv --include='/foo' --exclude='*' ./ remote_host:/some/dir

gives:

    opening connection using: ssh remote_host rsync --server -vvre30.14i .  /some/dir
    sending incremental file list
    removing duplicate name . from file list (2)
    removing duplicate name . from file list (3)
    removing duplicate name . from file list (4)
    removing duplicate name . from file list (5)
    delta-transmission enabled
    total: matches=0  hash_hits=0  false_alarms=0 data=0

    sent 51 bytes  received 15 bytes  132.00 bytes/sec
    total size is 0  speedup is 0.00


I can add that all works nicely even with version>=3.0.0pre5 the other
way around: i.e.:

  rsync -e ssh  -r --include='/foo' --exclude='*' remote_host:/some/dir ./

copies remote_host:/some/dir/foo into local current directory, as I
was always used to obtain.

Am I doing something wrong or something has changed between 3.0.0pre4
and 3.0.0pre5?

I could not find any report on this in bugzilla, and this makes me
think I might be making some gross mistake, but, as I said, that used
to work for years and still perfectly works for versions<=3.0.0pre4.

I'm on linux (2.6.23.12, i686)

I thank you very much in advance for any hint and, of course, for
making rsync available.


ciao
gabriele