Subject: Re: bug#22144: --exclude no longer works against arguments with a directory name

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 22:24:25 -0800

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> How is the file name defined, then?

It's built as a string, which is passed to 'open' without worrying about realpath.

By the way in case it's not already clear, I agree with you that the current 
behavior is not good, it's just that we can't simply revert (as that was also 
not good), we need to make it better.