rsync (cwrsync) in Gitbash - The source and destination cannot both be remote. [windows 7]

Question

I am trying to sync a local path to another drive using Git Bash in Windows 7. I downloaded cwRsync and copied the files over to my Git bash bin directory. I can run rsync but the following command gives me problems

rsync -av /c/00-dev/05-batch /f/RSYNC/ The source and destination cannot both be remote. rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1135) [receiver=3.0.6]

Both the paths are correct but it won't sync.

Answer 1

Workaround: cd to /c and rsync using relative paths.

So this works:

cd /c
touch temp/test.txt
rsync temp/test.txt temp/test2.txt

while this doesn't, even if you cd to /c:

$ rsync /c/temp/test.txt /c/temp/test2.txt
The source and destination cannot both be remote.

Tested with the Git Bash that came with git 2.9.0.windows.1.