Re: [Bug-tar] [patch v3] Bug / question in tar

[Eric Blake]

On 03/29/2014 02:55 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:

> It sounds like enough people are misusing GNU tar in the way you
> describe that, if we improved its performance in this case, we'd need to
> add a --be-stupid option so that tar would continue to read data that it
> doesn't need to.  (Perhaps you could come up with a better name for the
> option.  :-)

Maybe: --dry-run

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