Make --exclude-from look for files relatively to dest

[ivangretsky]

Good day!

First of all, rsync is one of the my favorite tools ever. It can do so much, I am learning new use cases each year... and there've been quite a few years already) Thank you!

One way I am using rsync is to deploy sites from dev environment to the production server and to download a copy from the production server to the dev environment. I run rsync from the root dir of the project in the dev env. When I am downloading a copy from the prod to dev, I am often not able to use --exclude-from option, as the file with the exclude instructions is not on the prod (which is src in this case), and --exclude-from seems to be looking for that file relatively to src (not sure, as couldn't find anything about it in the docs). Is there a way to make it look for this files relatively to dest?

This is the command I am running:

rsync --dry-run -rlcvz --delete --progress --exclude-from=deploy/.rsyncignore prod:~/site.com/public_html/ ./

[WayneD]

The --exclude-from option is relative to the current directly, since it must be read in on the client host. If you want to read rules on the remote host, see the --filter command's per-dir merge rules.