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

[David]

On 13 July 2010 04:47, Joerg Schilling
<address@hidden> wrote:
> David <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Using gnu tar 1.22 on ext3 here, every level 1 incremental archive
>> created contains an entry for every unchanged subdirectory. This
>> disagrees with the expected behaviour described in the manual.
>
> From my view, it it not really important whether the documentation matches
> actual behavior. It is of course desirable that the documentation is right,
> but does GNU tar _do_ what you expect?

Thank you for your interest. However your assumed use case differs from mine,
so please do not dismiss my query on that basis.

I am using incremental tar to create an easily browseable history organised by
differential changes, that can easily be selectively purged. I will never need
to do the full restore that you describe.

You did not quote what is to me the most important sentence of my original post:

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

Thank you for helping to clarify my issue.