rsync exclude according to .gitignore & .hgignore & svn:ignore like --filter=:C

Question

Rsync includes a nifty option --cvs-exclude to “ignore files in the same way CVS does”, but CVS has been obsolete for years. Is there any way to make it also ex

Answer 1

I had a number of very large .gitignore files and none of the "pure rsync" solutions worked for me. I wrote this rsync wrapper script, it fully respects .gitignore rules (include !-style exceptions and .gitignore files in subdirectories) and has worked like a charm for me.