--files-from parses input files by ignoring comments starting with # and ;
and stripping whitespace from start and end of strings.
The --files-from-raw flag was added that reads every line from the file ignoring
comment characters and not stripping whitespace while maintaining
backwards compatibility.
Fixes#3762
In c5ac96e9e7 we made --files-from only read the objects specified and
don't scan directories.
This caused problems with Google drive (very very slow) and B2
(excessive API consumption) so it was decided to make the old
behaviour (traversing the directories) the default with --files-from
and use the existing --no-traverse flag (which has exactly the right
semantics) to enable the new non scanning behaviour.
See: https://forum.rclone.org/t/using-files-from-with-drive-hammers-the-api/8726Fixes#3102Fixes#3095
Before this change using --files-from would scan all the directories
that the files could possibly be in causing rclone to do more work
that was necessary.
After this change, rclone constructs an in memory tree using the
--fast-list mechanism but from all of the files in the --files-from
list and without scanning any directories.
Any objects that are not found in the --files-from list are ignored
silently.
This mechanism is used for sync/copy/move (march) and all of the
listing commands ls/lsf/md5sum/etc (walk).
Now --dump-flag is written as --dump flag. This is a comma separated list which can contain
* headers - HTTP headers as before
* bodies - HTTP bodies as before
* requests - HTTP request bodies
* responses - HTTP response bodies
* auth - HTTP auth
* filters - Filter rexeps
Leave --dump-headers and --dump-bodies for the time being but remove
the other --dump-* flags as they aren't used very often.
Explains that filtering is done relative to the remote root.
Also removes a section that seems more about internal knowledge and
that may likely more confuse people. Adds instead a section giving an
overview of how to perform filtering before going into details.
This means you can mix `--include` and `--include-from` with the
other filters (eg `--exclude`) but you must include all the files you
want in the include statement.
Fixes#280
* Implement include/exclude
* Implement rsync compatible file globbing
* Implement command line filtering flags
* --delete-excluded - Delete files on dest excluded from sync
* --filter - Add a file-filtering rule
* --filter-from - Read filtering patterns from a file
* --exclude - Exclude files matching pattern
* --exclude-from - Read exclude patterns from file
* --include - Include files matching pattern
* --include-from - Read include patterns from file
* --files-from - Read list of source-file nam
* --min-size - Don't transfer any file smaller than this in k or suffix k|M|G
* --max-size - Don't transfer any file larger than this in k or suffix k|M|G
* Document
