Due to a quirk of rsync on Windows whereby absolute paths are interpreted as remote URLs (see below), it is impossible to use the same command as on Linux it to sync files between the active and staging directories. The only known alternative at present is to use relative paths from the drive root, but obviously that won't work if the directories are on different drives. It seems to be common practice to put Windows system files (including the temp directory) on the C: drive and web documents on D:, so this scenario seems likely to occur in real life. Consider adding support for it.
$ C:\ProgramData\Chocolatey\bin\rsync.EXE \
--archive \
--delete-after \
--verbose \
D:\a\composer-stager\composer-stager\var\phpunit\test-env\fresh-fixtures\active-dir\ \
D:\a\composer-stager\composer-stager\var\phpunit\test-env\fresh-fixtures\staging-dir
The source and destination cannot both be remote.
rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1426) [Receiver=3.2.7]
Due to a quirk of
rsyncon Windows whereby absolute paths are interpreted as remote URLs (see below), it is impossible to use the same command as on Linux it to sync files between the active and staging directories. The only known alternative at present is to use relative paths from the drive root, but obviously that won't work if the directories are on different drives. It seems to be common practice to put Windows system files (including the temp directory) on theC:drive and web documents onD:, so this scenario seems likely to occur in real life. Consider adding support for it.