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

[David]

On 13 July 2010 15:50, Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> wrote:
> David <address@hidden> ha escrit:
>
>> Using gnu tar 1.22 on ext3 here, every level 1 incremental archive
>> created contains an entry for every unchanged subdirectory.
>
> Directories are always included in incremental archives.

OK.

>> This disagrees with the expected behaviour described in the manual.
>
> No, this does not.  The cited example described the behavior of tar
> when new members were added to or removed from an archive.  It was not
> supposed to reproduce the full output listing.

Misleading. If I duplicate the example command, I expect to see
identical output.

>> This issue makes it difficult to work with my level 1 archives that
>> contain thousands of these useless empty unchanged directory entries.
>
> Unfortunately there's no way to change this.  The presence of the
> directory hierarchy in incremental archives is required for their
> correct unpacking.

OK. Thank you for clarifying.