It seems that under certain conditions, local filter rules where the
pattern is anchored with '/' to prevent rule propagation to sub-directories
leads to these rules being dropped entirely.

The following simplified example demonstrates the problem:

$ TESTDIR=/tmp/rsync-test
$ mkdir -p $TESTDIR/{root/{a/b,b/a/c},dst}
$ echo "- /a" > $TESTDIR/root/.rsync-filter

The following fails to exclude $TESTDIR/root/a, despite the per-directory
filter rule stating that sub-directory 'a' should not be considered:
$ cd $TESTDIR/dst
$ rsync -avvFFR $TESTDIR/root/ $TESTDIR/dst/
sending incremental file list
[sender] hiding file /tmp/rsync-test/root/.rsync-filter because of pattern .rsync-filter
delta-transmission disabled for local transfer or --whole-file
/tmp/
/tmp/rsync-test/
/tmp/rsync-test/root/
/tmp/rsync-test/root/a/
/tmp/rsync-test/root/a/b/
/tmp/rsync-test/root/b/
/tmp/rsync-test/root/b/a/
/tmp/rsync-test/root/b/a/c/
total: matches=0  hash_hits=0  false_alarms=0 data=0



Running rsync without '-R' works as expected, and changing into a directory
above $TESTDIR/root and using the relative path to $TESTDIR/root also seems
to work without problems.


We're running rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29, on Fedora7/x86_64
and CentOS5/{i686,x86_64}. The same behaviour appears in the latest version
from CVS [3.0.0pre2  protocol version 30.PR12].