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Good explanation -- at the risk of mindlessly repeating you, my reason for the "always use trailing/ slashes/" suggestion is that the behaviour in that case has (for me at least) always been the scenario desired most often:

    rsync /some/where/local/ host:/another/place/remote/
The contents of local/ go into remote/


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