Bug#829738: tar: --no-recursion option is ignored when creating archives

Anders Kaseorg andersk at mit.edu
Sat Dec 10 20:22:29 UTC 2016


This seems to have been an intentional upstream change.  --no-recursion 
now applies only to the following options, until cancelled by a following 
--recursion.

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/reproducible-builds/Week-of-Mon-20151012/003642.html
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=2bd9c15391b0bd6ef0bff76aebf09cfb53003199

The upstream documentation is fixed in Git (post-1.29) to put 
--no-recursion before -T -.

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=a2fd82f62285d647dac968108eee02457255eff7

Anders



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