Re: [Bug-tar] tar behaviour concerning overwriting of symlinks to target directories

[Paul Eggert]

Matthias Koenig <address@hidden> writes:

> Is this behaviour correct? The documentation isn't that clear about
> overwriting of links to a target directory.

I think it's correct, since "--no-overwrite-dir" is supposed
to keep the metadata of existing directories, and this includes
keeping whether the existing directory is actually a symlink to
a directory.

The documentation could be clearer though; perhaps you could suggest
an improvement?