rsync - Feb 2004 - Shell or rsync issue?

I ran across something I did not expect in rsync the other day.  If you 
want to sync the contents of a local directory to a remote directory, 
you would use something like this:

   rsync -rptv /local/directory/ user@host::module/remotedirectory/

The root of the sync is "/local/directory" and files are referenced as
"file1", "file2", etc...

However, the reverse is not true.  This command:

   rsync -rptv user@host::module/remotedirectory/ /local/directory/

will sync the files using "/local" as the root and files are
referenced
as "remotedirectory/file1", "remotedirectory/file2", etc. 
You can fix
it with:

   rsync -rptv user@host::module/remotedirectory/. /local/directory/

(notice the ".") which is not a big problem, but not expected.

What is the root cause behind this?  Using rsync 2.5.7 on AIX 5.1.


-- 
Aaron W Morris <aaronmorris@mindspring.com> (decep)

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 03:46:23PM -0500, Aaron W Morris
wrote:
>   rsync -rptv user@host::module/remotedirectory/ /local/directory/
> 
> will sync the files using "/local" as the root and files are
referenced
> as "remotedirectory/file1", "remotedirectory/file2",
etc.
I can't reproduce this.  Are you sure you didn't accidentally create an
extra set of files in the module dir remotedirecory/remotedirectory?
Or, to check if it might be a weird shell issue, try putting an "echo"
in front of the whole command and seeing if the trailing slash gets
removed.

..wayne..