Subject: Re: Tar and --overwrite-dir
From: [email-masked] (Eric Blake)
To: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Cc: Václav Haisman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:45:41 +0000

[Forwarding to the bug-tar list; originally reported on cygwin]

> My info tar mentions --overwrite-dir switch but the tar executable
> itself doesn't seem to know anything about it. Is the documentation out
> of sync with the executable?
> 
> My installed tar package is 1.15.1-2.
> 
> 
> Vaclav Haisman

It appears to be a bug in the info documentation. In looking
at the source, tar 1.15.1 only supports --no-overwrite-dir
and --overwrite.

--
Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin tar maintainer

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