multiple sources and excludes

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I have two folders that I need to 
merge onto a remote host. The sources contain conflicting files, and I'm trying to rsolve these conflicts using per-directory filter rules. However, it seems as if these rule files are merged together into one, instead of being treated separately for each 
directory. Is this the way it's supposed to work?

For example, I have:
Source A:
foo1.zip
foo2.zip
foo3.zip
dummy.txt

.rsync-include

Source B:
bar.zip
bar2.zip

foobar.txt
.rsync-include

.rsync-include on A says:
+ *.zip

.rsync-include on B says:
+ bar.zip
- **

the command line I'm using looks like:


rsync -f="- .*" -f=": .rsync-include" A B Destination:C


I was expecting that I would get everything in A and just bar.zip in B moved into Destination. However, instead I'm getting bar2.zip from B being put into the Destination as well, as if the "+ *.zip" in A is attached to B's include file as well.


Is there a better way to get what I want? I could split it up into two commands, but I was expecting better performance by using one command and only connecting to Destination once.