[Bug-tar] listed-incremental + files-from + no-recursion

[Stefanos Harhalakis]

Hello there,

  As you already know tar will not work as expected when 
using -Tg --no-recursion and AFAICS this 'bug' is present in tar 1.19 too. 
I've found older bug reports about this where you explained the situation.

  I suggest that when -T is used with -g and --no-recursion, tar should not 
look at directory contents. The files to be listed in a directory should be 
only those that are listed in the -T file (tar should only use this list). 
This would act as a special case.

  I understand that those options are incompatible (almost) by definition, but 
the 3 of them are essential in any advanced backup procedure, where the files 
to be backed up are provided by another program and not by tar and I believe 
that their combination should be handled as a special case.

Best regards,
Harhalakis Stefanos

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