Re: [Bug-tar] --keep-old-files bug

[Jim Meyering]

Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
>> Isn't this a regression?
>
> Judging by the three recent postings it definitely is.  The change itself,
> however, was made as an answer to requests from users who needed a way
> to discern actual extraction errors from ones triggered by existing
> files (and which are not errors at all).  Since apparently both
> functionalities are required, I'm inclined to introduce another
> option which would act as --keep-old-files does presently and then
> restore --keep-old-files to what it used to be in version 1.22.
>
> What do you think?

Hi Sergey,

That sounds perfect.  Thank you!