diff --git a/site/plugin.jelly b/site/plugin.jelly
index 95e8a94d..b8b4ff61 100644
--- a/site/plugin.jelly
+++ b/site/plugin.jelly
@@ -303,8 +303,9 @@
       <echo>Cleaning destination</echo>
       <j:set var="rsyncArgs" value="${rsyncArgs} --delete" />
     </j:if>
+    <!-- Note: trailing slash is important! -->
     <exec dir="." executable="${maven.rsync.executable}">
-      <arg line="-az ${rsyncArgs} ${relativeDocsDest}/* ${siteUsername}@${siteAddress}:${siteDirectory}" />
+      <arg line="-az ${rsyncArgs} ${relativeDocsDest}/ ${siteUsername}@${siteAddress}:${siteDirectory}" />
     </exec>
   </goal>
 </project>
diff --git a/site/xdocs/changes.xml b/site/xdocs/changes.xml
index de8bc048..64efd3f8 100644
--- a/site/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/site/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
   </properties>
   <body>
     <release version="1.6.1-SNAPSHOT" date="in SVN">
+      <action dev="brett" type="fix" issue="MPSITE-23" due-to="Oscar Picasso">Corrected rsync behaviour in some environments</action>
       <action dev="brett" type="change">Remove -v option from rsync by default</action>
     </release>
     <release version="1.6" date="2005-01-18">
