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

Aurelien Jarno aurel32 at debian.org
Sun Dec 18 22:26:32 UTC 2016


On 2016-12-10 15:22, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the info. I confirm that it works.

Aurelien

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