[Bug 1559747] Re: [REGRESSION] Rsync fails to send modifled files

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: rsync (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  [REGRESSION] Rsync fails to send modifled files

Status in rsync package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  1) I have modified a file whose path relative to the current directory
  is ./protected/controllers/MessageController.php. Incidentally, I have
  also modified some files in ./protected/runtime

  2) I do:

    $ rsync -avz --no-o --no-g --exclude-from=excludelist.txt
  ./protected ./themes ./css root at example.com:/srv/www/xxx/public_html

  The content of excludelist.txt is:
    runtime/*
    yiic
    views/static/*
    css/info_video.css

  EXPECTED:
  the modified file ./protected/controllers/MessageController.php should be uploaded to the server

  OBSERVED:
  it isn't.

  I had done this literally thousands of times and it always worked,
  until now.

  The output was:
    sending incremental file list
    protected/runtime/

    sent 40,652 bytes  received 1,021 bytes  7,576.91 bytes/sec
    total size is 11,521,344  speedup is 276.47

  as if only files within protected/runtime (which is in the exclude
  list) were modified.

  I repeated after modifying the file again, and this time the output was:
    sending incremental file list
    protected/controllers/
    protected/runtime/

    sent 40,661 bytes  received 1,026 bytes  9,263.78 bytes/sec
    total size is 11,521,344  speedup is 276.38

  as if differences were detected inside the protected/controllers/
  directory but only in files that match some of the exclude patters.
  Which is not the case. I mean, there are files that have been modified
  which match an excluded pattern (an autogenerated
  ./protected/controllers/MessageController.php~ backup file), but the
  file ./protected/controllers/MessageController.php was also modified,
  doesn't match any exclude pattern, and yet is not uploaded.

  This is a HUGE, critical issue. Whatever changes were made to rsync,
  they need to be URGENTLY reverted until this bug is figured out and
  fixed.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
  Package: rsync 3.1.1-3ubuntu0.15.10.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-34.39-generic 4.2.8-ckt4
  Uname: Linux 4.2.0-34-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sun Mar 20 17:28:36 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (890 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
  SourcePackage: rsync
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2016-01-18 (62 days ago)

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