On 13 July 2010 04:47, Joerg Schilling <[email protected]> wrote: > David <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Using gnu tar 1.22 on ext3 here, every level 1 incremental archive >> created contains an entry for every unchanged subdirectory. This >> disagrees with the expected behaviour described in the manual. > > From my view, it it not really important whether the documentation matches > actual behavior. It is of course desirable that the documentation is right, > but does GNU tar _do_ what you expect?
Thank you for your interest. However your assumed use case differs from mine, so please do not dismiss my query on that basis. I am using incremental tar to create an easily browseable history organised by differential changes, that can easily be selectively purged. I will never need to do the full restore that you describe. You did not quote what is to me the most important sentence of my original post: >> This issue makes it difficult to work with my level 1 archives that >> contain thousands of these useless empty unchanged directory entries. Thank you for helping to clarify my issue.
