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Re: tar-1.12 through tar-1.13.25: dir/file name conflict on restore with
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: tar-1.12 through tar-1.13.25: dir/file name conflict on restore with --listed-incremental |
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Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:42:13 -0800 (PST) |
> From: John E Hein <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 09:52:43 -0700
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> Do you agree that the following behavior (extracted from the info
> pages, Node: Dealing with Old Files) is inappropriate when using
> --listed-incremental? I am referring specifically to the behavior
> when an existing non-empty directory conflicts with a file in an
> "incremental" archive.
It might not hurt to modify tar so that --listed-incremental implies
--recursive-unlink. Can you supply a patch to do that?
(The hardest part of the patch will be to modify the documentation. :-)