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I'm probably missing something, but it looks like your first requirement rules out using --delete, but your third requirement seems to imply the need for it because you want the source and target to be identical - and it won't be if there are any files on the target which are not on the source. If this is the case, then you may have to use more than pass - the first at the top-level