Re: [Bug-tar] [patch v3] Bug / question in tar

2014-03-31 Thread Joerg Schilling
Paul Eggert egg...@cs.ucla.edu wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: Gtar does not read the files in this case: Hmm, it read the files for the case that I tried. Perhaps it reads sometimes and not others. Either way, it appears that I was wrong and this is not an entirely theoretical

[Bug-tar] [PATCH] docs: document common mistake with --exclude

2014-03-31 Thread Pavel Raiskup
The default settings of --exclude wildcard matching leads usually to --no-wildcards-match-slash option but there is not obvious that users should also turn --no-anchored option on. * doc/tar.texi: Describe. --- doc/tar.texi | 67 1