Re: [Bug-tar] Incremental extract improvement

[Paul Eggert]

Helmut Waitzmann <address@hidden> writes:

> The intended usage of a full archive followed by a series of
> incremental archives is to restore a previous state of a file
> hierarchy, no matter what its current state is, not to manipulate an
> arbitrary file hierarchy in a manner similar to the manipulations
> that could be done in order to restore that file hierarchy on which
> the archive had been created.

Thanks for the clear explanation.

Perhaps something like this could be put into the manual?  The subject
does come up every so often...