Previewing a backup's included files: can't --git-ignore on ls

[leaumar]

I'd like to clearly and readably preview the list of files that's going to be backed up, like restic's backup -n -vv does. Rustic doesn't seem to have an equivalent, I can only find -n --log-level debug which produces hard to read output full of object toStrings and paths that are excluded. I tried the same options with rustic ls but this says it does not recognize --git-ignore which I want to include.

Did I miss a way to do this, or could support for --git-ignore be added to ls so it mirrors the file filtering flags of the backup command, please?

[aawsome]

Hi @leaumar!

The log output of rustic has been overworked in #1565; the nightly build already contains this change. The output should be now much more similar to the restic output by default.

Besides this, adding a feature to let ls also work on local files and use exclude/ignore options is a nice idea which IMO can be added quite easily!
Actually a ls on a local dir should be also much faster than a backup -n as backup also reads and chunks new/changed files whereas ls would only apply excludes/ignores to the files.