Hello everybody! It looks like I've found bug in tar.
When used to create archive with option `--exclude-vcs-ignores` tar treats `.gitignore` patterns as shell patterns while they are not. Consider the following example. $ tar c --exclude-vcs-ignores -f ../tartest.tar . $ tar tf ../tartest.tar ./ $ ls -1lA total 8 1 .2 .git .gitignore $ cat .gitignore .* Expected result is for `1` to be found in the archive. In this case git ignores `.2` and `.gitignore` files while tar ignores everything. `.*` means "ignore everything starting with .". This is not a regex. It is expected for `--exclude-vcs-ignores` to mimic VCS' ignore logic. Thank you and keep up the good work! -- Serge Matveenko mailto: se...@matveenko.ru github: https://github.com/lig/ aboutme: https://about.me/lig1
