ignore-non-existing-directory: add variant of ignore-non-existing #595
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Add new option --ignore-non-existing-directory, that is a variant of --ignore-non-existing, but applies ONLY to directories.
This was previously proposed in bug #8366, but I independently had a use case for it in the Gentoo infrastructure.
Reference: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8366
Reference: http://superuser.com/questions/316561/rsync-synchronizing-files-only-without-creating-folders-on-destination
Reference: RsyncProject/rsync-patches#8
Reference: https://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2015-November/030455.html