Look for the case where a parent is excluded, e.g. if /a/b/c is

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Issue type
Refactor
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Clearly specified
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python
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Start at line 73 of backblaze_add_exclusion.py and read the surrounding exclusion-building logic. Check whether an existing excluded parent path makes a proposed child exclusion redundant; done means nested exclusions such as /a/b/c and /a/b/c/d/e do not both get added.

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already excluded, we can safely skip adding an exclusion for /a/b/c/d/e.

Line: 73
https://github.com/sammcj/scripts/blob/cc03a896a337760e68c061188da0cbc7592ff219//backblaze_add_exclusion.py#L70-L80

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