* Thomas Blein <tbl...@tblein.eu> [Son Aug 15, 2010 at 09:43:55 +0200]:
> It looks like that some descriptions included in tar.1 page are not complete.
> According to what I invesigated is that the tarman script responsible for the
> extraction of the info from src/tar.c is not able to extract messages that are
> split on several lines.
> For example the following message from src.tar.c (l 427-432):
> {"occurrence", OCCURRENCE_OPTION, N_("NUMBER"), OPTION_ARG_OPTIONAL,
> N_("process only the NUMBERth occurrence of each file in the archive;"
> " this option is valid only in conjunction with one of the subcommands"
> " --delete, --diff, --extract or --list and when a list of files"
> " is given either on the command line or via the -T option;"
> " NUMBER defaults to 1"), GRID+1 },
> is extracted as following in tar.1 (l 199-200)
> .It Fl \-occurrence
> process only the NUMBERth occurrence of each file in the archive;
I just stumbled upon this bug on my own with tar v1.25-2 and:
{"exclude-tag", EXCLUDE_TAG_OPTION, N_("FILE"), 0,
N_("exclude contents of directories containing FILE, except"
" for FILE itself"), GRID+1 },
which reads as:
--exclude-tag=FILE
exclude contents of directories containing FILE, except
in the manpage which is quite misleading.
regards,
-mika-
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