Re: [Bug-tar] Unchanged directories in listed-incremental level 1

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

David <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> Using gnu tar 1.22 on ext3 here, every level 1 incremental archive
> created contains an entry for every unchanged subdirectory.

Directories are always included in incremental archives.

> This disagrees with the expected behaviour described in the manual.

No, this does not.  The cited example described the behavior of tar
when new members were added to or removed from an archive.  It was not
supposed to reproduce the full output listing.

> This issue makes it difficult to work with my level 1 archives that
> contain thousands of these useless empty unchanged directory entries.

Unfortunately there's no way to change this.  The presence of the
directory hierarchy in incremental archives is required for their
correct unpacking.

Regards,
Sergey