RE: [Bug-tar] Previously existing files should not be an error when -k is specified

[Jonathan Kamens]

Thanks for the quick response!

-----Original Message-----
From: Sergey Poznyakoff [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 5:52 AM
To: Jonathan Kamens
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] Previously existing files should not be an error when
-k is specified

Jonathan Kamens <address@hidden> ha escrit:

>    If I specify -k to tell tar not to overwrite old files, and indeed
>    there are some old files that tar doesn't overwrite, then it prints
>    error messages about these files, which is wrong, and it exits with a
>    non-zero status, which is also wrong.

Thanks for reporting.  It is fixed in the repository.  Attached is a
patch against git HEAD.

Regards,
Sergey