Re: [Bug-tar] more on woes with --listed-incremental

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Dat Head <address@hidden> wrote:

> >at some point the --listed-incremental file went from having all the
> >file names in it to just the dirs (this is a good thing, as it is much
> >smaller [and uses less memory])
> 
> would it be possible to roll gtar back to this method until the other
> method is fixed?

GNU tar never stored all files info into the snapshot file, it
always stored only directory metadata there. 
 
Regards,
Sergey