Good explanation -- at the risk of mindlessly repeating you, my reason for the "always use trailing/ slashes/" suggestion is that the behaviour in that case has

Good explanation -- at the risk of mindlessly repeating you, my reason for the "always use trailing/ slashes/" suggestion is that the behaviour in that case has (for me at least) always been the scenario desired most often: rsync /some/where/local/ host:/another/place/remote/ The contents of local/ go into remote/