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Re: Backwards compatibility bug
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Backwards compatibility bug |
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Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:06:37 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Troy Bridoux <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 10:17:53 -0700
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> As of tar 1.13, the semantics on the -X argument have changed from
> excluding full pathnames to excluding only base names.
Yes, it turns out that this was quite a mess (both in pre-1.13 tars
and in tar 1.13). We've tried to clean it up in the latest test
version, which you can try at:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/