specified to turn off the parsing of prefixes).
)
-The following modifier is accepted after a "+" or "-":
+The following modifiers are accepted after a "+" or "-":
itemize(
it() A "/" specifies that the include/exclude should be treated as an
absolute path, relative to the root of the filesystem. For example,
"-/_/etc/passwd" would exclude the passwd file any time the transfer
was sending files from the "/etc" directory.
+ it() A "!" specifies that the include/exclude should take effect if
+ the pattern fails to match. For instance, "-! */" would exclude all
+ non-directories.
)
Per-directory rules are inherited in all subdirectories of the directory