Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: ericblake AT comcast DOT net (Eric Blake) To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, bug-tar AT gnu DOT org Cc: Václav Haisman Subject: Re: Tar and --overwrite-dir Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:45:41 +0000 Message-Id: <101120051645.6708.434BEC350000F2FD00001A3422073000330A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> [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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/