Re: [Bug-tar] dereferencing broken since 1.24?

[Paul Eggert]

On 01/06/11 15:16, Michael Lawrence wrote:
> It's too bad there isn't an option to preserve the old behavior,
> which was practically useful even if inconsistent.

Why was it useful in practice?  If there's a good argument for
the inconsistent behavior, perhaps we should add that option.

Does adding the --hard-dereference option give you the behavior that
you want?  If not, what's different between "--dereference
--hard-dereference" and the behavior that you want?