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authorSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>2003-09-04 15:43:35 +0000
committerSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>2003-09-04 15:43:35 +0000
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@@ -30,25 +30,9 @@ so that the GNU extensions (--sparse, --incremental, --label and
It would be useful to be able to use '--remove-files' with '--diff',
to remove all files that compare successfully, when verifying a backup.
-* Add an option to cut away the first N output path elements:
+* Add tests for testing the added functonality.
- From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:55:31 +0200
-
- some archives have members like
- foo/bar
- foo/baz
- foo/bam
-
- When I now want to extract the three members bar, baz and bam to the
- directory fom instead foo, I need to extract to foo and then to move
- the files over manually.
-
- patch(1) solves that problem by offering an option taking the number
- of path elements to cut away before using the path name. With an
- option like that, the above problem could be solved with
-
- tar --extract --cut-path-elements 1 --directory fom
+* Revise the --sparse option functionality.
* Copyright notice