Re: [Bug-tar] tar -T option

[Pavel Raiskup]

> > - the semantics of -T option changed in relation to -C option.  I am
> >   unable to find any note in changelog that this is expected - so I'm just
> >   not sure.  Do you really want that?
> 
> Actually, yes.  I think that -C should affect all options that follow
> it.  I indeed failed to list that in the news file, something which I
> will fix soon.

Thanks.

> I doubt that this change will have a big impact on
> backward-compatibility: it took almost 6 years for *one* user to notice
> that the behavior of -T option has changed since 1.15.1, so we can
> reasonably assume that it does not belong to most widely used options.

You are most probably right.

One other note worth to document (considering that this decision is
stable) is the checking for re-definition of the same file.  Previously,
the -T option failed very early — before creation of archive started..
But now it fails in the middle of tar's hard work (though, don't think
there is much to do with that, except to just ignore the that situation
istead of hard fail).

Pavel