Re: [Bug-tar] make your tar archive even more anonymous

[Joerg Schilling]

Denis Excoffier <address@hidden> wrote:

> >> Because diff -r is not useful for tree comparing in general, star supports 
> >> a 
> >> user tailorable -diff option.
> >> 
> >> Did you check "star -diff -v diffopts=...."?
> >> 
> I'm afraid not. In fact, i have applied a patch that introduces a -K
> (--no-dereference) option in order not to traverse symlinks. I'm happy
> with it.

With diff, you still cannot compare time stamps, permissions, owner/group, 
symlink targets, .....

Given the fact that star supports this since 20 years, I would asume that the 
option was known in the public.

Jörg

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