On 13 July 2010 15:50, Sergey Poznyakoff <[email protected]> wrote: > David <[email protected]> ha escrit: > >> Using gnu tar 1.22 on ext3 here, every level 1 incremental archive >> created contains an entry for every unchanged subdirectory. > > Directories are always included in incremental archives.
OK. >> This disagrees with the expected behaviour described in the manual. > > No, this does not. The cited example described the behavior of tar > when new members were added to or removed from an archive. It was not > supposed to reproduce the full output listing. Misleading. If I duplicate the example command, I expect to see identical output. >> This issue makes it difficult to work with my level 1 archives that >> contain thousands of these useless empty unchanged directory entries. > > Unfortunately there's no way to change this. The presence of the > directory hierarchy in incremental archives is required for their > correct unpacking. OK. Thank you for clarifying.
