Re: tar-1.12 through tar-1.13.25: dir/file name conflict on restore with --listed-incremental

[John E Hein]

Paul Eggert wrote at 10:42 -0800 on Dec 12:
 > > From: John E Hein <address@hidden>
 > > Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 09:52:43 -0700
 > > 
 > > 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.  :-)

I could if you think it would be a good idea, but I'm not so sure now.
 restore has the same type of issue unless you specify -u.  So I think
 that behavior is not entirely unexpected.