rsync exclude according to .gitignore & .hgignore & svn:ignore like --filter=:C

Question

Rsync includes a nifty option --cvs-exclude to “ignore files in the same way CVS does”, but CVS has been obsolete for years. Is there any way to make it also ex

Answer 1

Alternatives:

git ls-files -zi --exclude-standard |rsync -0 --exclude-from=- ...

git ls-files -zi --exclude-per-directory=".gitignore" |...

(rsync only partly understands .gitignore)