Clarence Dang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I just discovered that tar 1.14 enabled the opposite of "--no-overwrite-dir" 
> by default.  This is an unexpected and subtle change in behavior.

The change in question was mage on 2001-09-24 in order to make the
default GNU tar behavior compatible with that of another existing tar
implementations.

It was discussed on the list and is explicitely documented in NEWS file.

Regards,
Sergey
 


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