Re: prefer local files to network connections

[Paul Eggert]

On 2024-01-30 11:02, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Perhaps it's time to evolve tar in the direction that it should have 
> gone back in the 1980s. That is, we add an option --remote to require 
> remote interpretation of file names, and warn if a remote file name is 
> used without --remote. Eventually we can make --remote the default. 
> (There may be a better option name than "--remote"; we can look at other 
> programs for ideas.)

Oops, I meant to write "Eventually we can make --force-local the default."

(Did I say this area was confusing? :-)