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 <p>Synchronize a target directory from the files defined in one or
 more filesets.</p>
 
+<p>Any file in the target directory that has not been matched by at
+least one of the nested filesets gets removed.  I.e. if you exclude a
+file in your sources and a file of that name is present in the target
+dir, it will get removed from the target.</p>
+
 <h3>Parameters</h3>
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