Hi Paul, > This is talking about what tar will accept, but isn't the bug report > about what tar generates?
I'm afraid I didn't explain myself properly. The test case in question tests if tar stores directories while creating a "v7" archive. Here's an excerpt: tar cfvo archive directory The -o option is synonymous to -H v7, so the case fits exactly the bug report. > Perhaps we should leave the current behavior alone, since it's been > that way for quite some time and possibly people depend on it. They do, indeed. As I said, Automake generated Makefiles use this feature extensively. By default, the "dist" goal in such Makefiles creates the distribution tarball using this command: tar chof - DIRNAME so we cannot simply change the existing behavior. > We could call the new option --format='seventh-edition'. Nice idea. I'm all for it. Regards, Sergey
