Re: [Bug-tar] --listed-incremental and --no-recursion

[Michael]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> wrote:

> According to the snapshot, the produced archive contains only files
> and subdirectories from dev/, but no files from the subdirectories.

True. But that's not how tar behaves when used without
listed-incremental option. Without it, it only puts in /dev directory
entry and nothing else, not even the files immediately under it.
It's that behaviour I find useful when compiling my own list of files
and folders and passing them to tar.


mikeY