by this option.
dit(bf(--existing, --ignore-non-existing)) This tells rsync to skip
-creating files (i.e. non-directory items) that do not exist yet on the
-destination. If this option is
+creating files (including directories) that do not exist
+yet on the destination. If this option is
combined with the bf(--ignore-existing) option, no files will be updated
-(which can be useful if all you want to do is to delete missing files).
+(which can be useful if all you want to do is to delete extraneous files).
-dit(bf(--ignore-existing)) This tells rsync to skip updating files (i.e.
-non-directory items) that
-already exist on the destination. See also bf(--existing).
+dit(bf(--ignore-existing)) This tells rsync to skip updating files that
+already exist on the destination (this does em(not) ignore existing
+directores, or nothing would get done). See also bf(--existing).
dit(bf(--remove-sent-files)) This tells rsync to remove from the sending
side the files and/or symlinks that are newly created or whose content is