I do the following:rsync --recursive --delete --delete-excluded --exclude-from=$HOME/etc/rsync_exclude.txt --relative --safe-links --executability . /path/to/savedirNote that the source directory is the working directory (specified as .)Inside the working directory, I have a directory ./repository and a file ./Vagrantfile.The file rsync_exclude.txt contains, among others, the lines/repository//VagrantfileI would have expected that these entries would exceed my repository and Vagrantfile, becausethe leading slash expresses that the names are to be anchored at the root directory for saving, which is the working directory, andthe trailing slash on repository explicitly states that this is a directory, not a fileHowever, both entries are copied.What did I do wrong?(This is rsync 2.6.9 running on MacOS Sierra (but I don't think this matters in this case)).UPDATE: When debugging rsync (using -vv and --dry-run) I can clearly see that all non-anchored rules are accepted (for instance, rsync tells me hiding directory vp5/.git because of pattern .git/), but none of the anchored rules work. I also tried to replace the source directory (.) by ./ or $PWD, but this too did not have any effect.Furthermore, when I remove the leading / (for instance, turning /repository/ into repository/), the directory is excluded. Of course this directory would now be excluded anywhere in the tree, which doesn't harm in this particular case, but is not what I want in general).
rsync ignores anchored exclude pattern
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