Hello,
The current version of the --exclude documentation says the following:
```
‘--exclude=GLOB’
Skip any command-line file with a name suffix that matches the
pattern GLOB, using wildcard matching; a name suffix is either the
whole name, or a trailing part that starts with a
On second thought, I think the documentation is fine. I just misread it. It
has two sentences: "Skip any COMMAND-LINE file with..." and "When searching
recursively, skip any SUBFILE whose...". So both cases are considered and
it doesn't imply that --exclude acts on command line files only.
Currently the documentation for the -f flag in both man page and info
are not very clear about the possibility of passing "-" to read from stdin.
Hello,
It would be nice to have an option to exclude the files specified in
VCS ignore files.
GNU tar already has this:
> ‘--exclude-vcs-ignores’
> Exclude files that match patterns read from VCS-specific ignore
> files. Supported files are: ‘.cvsignore’, ‘.gitignore’,
>
