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[Bug-tar] Re: Auto-exclude of cache directories for tar, cpio
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
[Bug-tar] Re: Auto-exclude of cache directories for tar, cpio |
Date: |
Sat, 31 Jul 2004 20:44:50 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Bryan Ford <address@hidden> writes:
> I'd like to submit the following enhancement for GNU tar.
Please send this to <address@hidden>, as I'm not the tar maintainer
any more.
> Now that it's been reviewed more widely and hasn't encountered
> serious technical objections,
I wasn't entirely convinced that we should go with a name that doesn't
work with older POSIX implementations. Also, I didn't see any reply
to the comments by Joerg Schilling about existing practice with star
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2004-07/msg00028.html>.
If .mirror and/or .exclude already does the job, and works with older
filesystems, then why invent a new name?