Most other options which have different defaults for superuser and ordinary users already say as much. Fix these to match. --- src/tar.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/tar.c b/src/tar.c index e10b804..309f9d7 100644 --- a/src/tar.c +++ b/src/tar.c @@ -481,9 +481,9 @@ static struct argp_option options[] = { {"touch", 'm', 0, 0, N_("don't extract file modified time"), GRID+1 }, {"same-owner", SAME_OWNER_OPTION, 0, 0, - N_("try extracting files with the same ownership"), GRID+1 }, + N_("try extracting files with the same ownership as exists in the archive (default for superuser)"), GRID+1 }, {"no-same-owner", NO_SAME_OWNER_OPTION, 0, 0, - N_("extract files as yourself"), GRID+1 }, + N_("extract files as yourself (default for ordinary users)"), GRID+1 }, {"numeric-owner", NUMERIC_OWNER_OPTION, 0, 0, N_("always use numbers for user/group names"), GRID+1 }, {"preserve-permissions", 'p', 0, 0, -- 1.6.3.3