rsync - Feb 2009 - strange behaviour on file with ':' in its name

Using 3.0.5 I can't send a file with ':' in its name in the current
directory without prefixing it with ./

delos% touch file:ext

delos% rsync -avP file:ext sylla:/home/ldm
The source and destination cannot both be remote.
rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1154) [receiver=3.0.5]

delos:~% rsync -avP "file:ext" sylla:/home/ldm
The source and destination cannot both be remote.
rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1154) [receiver=3.0.5]

delos:~% rsync -avP file\:ext sylla:/home/ldm 
The source and destination cannot both be remote.
rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1154) [receiver=3.0.5]

delos:~% rsync -avP ./file:ext sylla:/home/ldm
sending incremental file list
file:ext
           0 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)
sent 83 bytes  received 31 bytes  228.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00

delos:~% touch file.ext  

delos:~% rsync -aP file.ext sylla:/home/ldm
sending incremental file list
file.ext
           0 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)
sent 83 bytes  received 31 bytes  76.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00

On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 13:33 +0100, Louis-David Mitterrand
wrote:
> Using 3.0.5 I can't send a file with ':' in its name in the
current
> directory without prefixing it with ./
> 
> delos% touch file:ext
> 
> delos% rsync -avP file:ext sylla:/home/ldm
> The source and destination cannot both be remote.
> rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1154)
[receiver=3.0.5]
That's because the HOST:PATH syntax indicates a source or destination to
be accessed via remote shell.  If you want to send a file whose name
would be misinterpreted as remote, use ./ or --files-from.

-- 
Matt