[Unison-hackers] the unison [0-9]*.* bug

[Claudio]

Thanks, that's right. When unsetting my backup options and running
unison again, it didn't leave out any files.

My prior backup settings are as follows.
,---
| backuplocation = central
| backupdir = /home/claudio/.unison/backup
| backup = Name *
| backupprefix = $VERSION.
| backupsuffix = 
`---

There is no logical reason for assuming that any file outside the
'backupdir' is a backup file (and to ignore it though not told to do so
by ignore directives). Nor is this behaviour documented.

IMO that is a bug.

Claudio

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 05:40:29PM -0400, Benjamin Pierce wrote:
> Probably you have a "backup" preference set to something beginning  
> with the backup prefix (which is a number).  Unison tries to ignore  
> backup files...
> 
>     - B
> 
> On Apr 28, 2009, at 5:32 PM, Claudio wrote:
> > I've encountered the behaviour that unison ignores some files even if
> > there isn't a single "ignore" directive(!). For example those files  
> > are
> > affected:
> >
> > 1237678487.000102.mbox:2,S
> > 20._Geburtstag
> > 05.HTM
> > 400.html
> > 04.03.tar.gz
> > 2.
> > 3.3
> > 4.foo
> > 55.bar
> >
> > unison version 2.27.57 (shipped with ubuntu)
> >
> > So it doesnt sync my mails in ~/Maildir and a huge amount other
> > documents. I found a creepy workaround:
> >
> > ignorenot = Name [0-9]*.*