Can't get --exclude to work with --pull

[calebplum]

I'm trying to copy the entire contents of /sdcard from a device to a computer while excluding certain large directories (such as the Spotify cache). But I can't seem to get the --exclude flag to work correctly.

I've tried:

adbsync.py -L --exclude "/sdcard/Android/data/com.spotify.music/" --pull . /sdcard/
adbsync.py -L --exclude "/sdcard/Android/data/com.spotify.music/*" --pull . /sdcard/

But both commands result in the excluded directories being copied:

/sdcard/Android/data/com.spotify.music/files/spotifycache/Storage/6f...88e574ac209a58b.file: 1 file pulled. 2.1 MB/s (3601 bytes in 0.002s)
/sdcard/Android/data/com.spotify.music/files/spotifycache/Storage/6f...a205583bf104.file: 1 file pulled. 19.4 MB/s (101635 bytes in 0.005s)
/sdcard/Android/data/com.spotify.music/files/spotifycache/Storage/6f...f36ae173de05.file: 1 file pulled. 25.4 MB/s (164866 bytes in 0.006s)

Am I using the flag incorrectly? It would be great to have some example usage for each of the flags in the README and when you run the script with no arguments.

[fk1000]

Quoting README.md:

Each should be a fnmatch pattern relative to the source.

So you should remove /sdcard/ from your exclude pattern.

See Python documetation for fnmatch. You may use * to match parts of a complete (relative) path, even including / characters.