exclude confusion: what does it match against?

[Francis Montagnac]

> Remember - we are talking about the transfer root, not the filesystem
> root or partition root.

Yes.

> The source transfer root is the source path with any trailing node
> removed up to the last slash.

I see, but as soon as you have more than one source argument to rsync,
except when using --relative, this notion of "source transfer root"
makes little sense to me.

Or one can perhaps clearly state that there is one "source root" by
argument when not using --relative.

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