Re: [Bug-tar] --no-overwrite-dir implies that tar will overwrite files when extracting?

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Remi Broemeling <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> Thanks for the response -- I'm not clear on why these options cannot be
> used together?

That's the way they're implemented now.  It may be possible to separate
them, though.

> You're right that updating tar to warn/error when conflicting options are
> used;

That's not so straightforward.  There is at least one case whereby two
otherwise conflicting options can legitimately be used together: one of
them can appear in TAR_OPTIONS environment variable to set up a default
behavior, and then another one can be supplied in the command line to
temporarly override it.

Regards,
Sergey