>  The callable takes the src directory + its content as a list, and
>  returns filter eligible for exclusion

FWIW, that looks better to me.

>  That makes me wonder, like Alexander said on the bug tracker:
>  In the glob-style patterns callable, do we want to deal with absolute paths ?

I think that it would be okay to document that
shutil.ignore_patterns() only accepts patterns matching individual
filenames (not complex paths). If someone needs to do something with
absolute paths, then they can write their own 'ignore' function,
right?

Steve
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