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Re: Tar and --overwrite-dir
- From: ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, bug-tar at gnu dot org
- Cc: Václav Haisman <V dot Haisman at sh dot cvut dot cz>
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:45:41 +0000
- Subject: Re: Tar and --overwrite-dir
[Forwarding to the bug-tar list; originally reported on cygwin]
> My info tar mentions --overwrite-dir switch but the tar executable
> itself doesn't seem to know anything about it. Is the documentation out
> of sync with the executable?
>
> My installed tar package is 1.15.1-2.
>
>
> Vaclav Haisman
It appears to be a bug in the info documentation. In looking
at the source, tar 1.15.1 only supports --no-overwrite-dir
and --overwrite.
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Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin tar maintainer
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