Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: DARCS

[Jan Hudec]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 11:20:16 +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> Jan Hudec <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 23:23:07 +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> >> > > A tool like "cvs export" would probably a good thing though.
> >> 
> >> tla inventory --source foo | tar czf foo.tgz -T -
> >>
> >> Works to a certain degree. It fails if you have empty source
> >> directories, for one.
> >  
> > tla inventory --both --source foo | tar czf foo.tgz -T -
> >
> > This should include directories in the listing
> 
> I don't think you can tar a directory without getting its contents.

Yes, you can. But my original command was wrong -- --no-recursion option
must be specified to tar. So it would be:

tla inventory --both --source foo | tar --no-recursion -czf foo.tgz -T -

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