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Re: [Bug-tar] Incremental extract improvement
From: |
Sergey Poznyakoff |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-tar] Incremental extract improvement |
Date: |
Wed, 10 May 2006 09:49:32 EEST |
Wolfram Kleff <address@hidden> wrote:
> In case of an incremental extract, we might experience the case that a new
> file/symlink etc. should be written over a dir with subdirs in it.
[...]
> in case of an incremental extract, we might mess
> the previous dir-content because the incremental extract tries to recursive
> delete the previous dir-content.
This is the purpose of the incremental extraction: to restore exact
Fcc: sent-messages
state of the directory at the time the dump was made. Any file or
directory not present in the archive should be removed (for directories,
this implies recursive removal). I don't see anything wrong with it.
Can you please give an example when this behavior is not desired?
Regards,
Sergey
- [Bug-tar] Incremental extract improvement, Wolfram Kleff, 2006/05/10
- Re: [Bug-tar] Incremental extract improvement,
Sergey Poznyakoff <=
- Re: [Bug-tar] Incremental extract improvement, Ian Turner, 2006/05/10
- Re: [Bug-tar] Incremental extract improvement, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006/05/10
- Re: [Bug-tar] Incremental extract improvement, Ian Turner, 2006/05/10
- Re: [Bug-tar] Incremental extract improvement, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006/05/10
- Re: [Bug-tar] Incremental extract improvement, Ian Turner, 2006/05/11
- Re: [Bug-tar] Incremental extract improvement, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006/05/12
- Re: [Bug-tar] Incremental extract improvement, Ian Turner, 2006/05/15
- Re: [Bug-tar] Incremental extract improvement, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006/05/16
- Re: [Bug-tar] Incremental extract improvement, Helmut Waitzmann, 2006/05/15
- Re: [Bug-tar] Incremental extract improvement, Ian Turner, 2006/05/16