Re: [Bug-tar] Skipped files with --listed-incremental after rename

[Paul Eggert]

"Alex Adriaanse" <address@hidden> writes:

> is there any better way to address this problem?

rename has to modify the ctime of the parent directories involved.
tar should use the parent directories' ctime to decide whether to
dump the child files.

If memory serves, 'star' does this a different (and better) way,
but I haven't looked into it.