Re: [Bug-tar] --directory does not work with --incremental

[Nathan Stratton Treadway]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:44:22 +1200, Sebastian Unger wrote:
> I just noticed that the combination of options --extract --incremental
> --directory <path> does not work as expected. As far as I can tell
> --incremental is ignored and files are not deleted as they should be.

For what it's worth, I believe your issue is the same as the one that   
was discussed in this thread:
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2013-03/msg00036.html

                                                        Nathan

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