Yes, it is not immediately obvious that when rsync is transferring a
path that ends in '/' that it is really transferring the "." directory.
Thus, this command:
rsync -av /some/path/ /another/spot/
... actually transfers "/some/path/." to "/another/spot/.", which
updates its permissions/ownership/etc. The code even makes sure that it
is impossible to exclude this "." dir from the transfer, or else
recursion would stop. So, I actually consider this a bad design in the
rsync protocol, but not one that I would want to attempt to change at
the moment (if ever). You are right that this should be documented
better.
..wayne..
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