A trailing slash on the source changes this behavior to avoid creating an additional
directory level at the destination. You can think of a trailing / on a source as meaning
"copy the contents of this directory" as opposed to "copy the directory by name", but in
both cases the attributes of the containing directory are transferred to the containing
directory on the destination. [b]In other words, each of the following commands copies the
files [u]in the same way[/u][/b], including their setting of the attributes of /dest/foo:
rsync -av /src/foo /dest
rsync -av /src/foo/ /dest/foo