I believe if you polled the majority of people who use GNU tar, you'll find that they will agree with Sergey on this one. The whole point of the listed-incremental is to create small snapshots of what has changed since the last snapshot; those snapshots include files that are moved, deleted, renamed, etc, so that when fully restored the file system is a mirror image at the time of archival.
-- John Thomas McDole -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sergey Poznyakoff Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 5:39 AM To: Ian Turner Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] Incremental extract improvement Ian Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I were in charge of the world, yes: I say that the current default > behavior is confusing and dangerous for new users, and should be changed. Perhaps most unix commands are dangerous for new users, unless they read documentation prior to using them (which is, unfortunately, rather rare). Sacrificing functionality so that newbies don't accidentally destroy their data is, in my opinion, not the best way to proceed. Besides, the current incremental restore behavior is the way GNU tar operates since 1997, so changing it will break all scripts people were using since then. Regards, Sergey _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
