Wolfram Kleff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In case of an incremental extract, we might experience the case that a new > file/symlink etc. should be written over a dir with subdirs in it. [...] > in case of an incremental extract, we might mess > the previous dir-content because the incremental extract tries to recursive > delete the previous dir-content.
This is the purpose of the incremental extraction: to restore exact Fcc: sent-messages state of the directory at the time the dump was made. Any file or directory not present in the archive should be removed (for directories, this implies recursive removal). I don't see anything wrong with it. Can you please give an example when this behavior is not desired? Regards, Sergey _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
