[Bug-tar] Re: tar 1.15.90 released

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Matt McCutchen <address@hidden> wrote:

> I agree with Helmut.  If the first archive contains files whose names
> look like tar options, the second tar will now interpret them as
> options, which is not desired.

There's nothing new here, you'd get the same behavior with tar 1.13.25
(and even with 1.11) if any of your files happened to begin with -C.

Regards,
Sergey