Hi Dawid,
> To my surprise it worked the first time, but on subsequent attempts it
> just hangs. After some investigation, it turned out that if one uses
> `--xattrs --skip-old-files` together, and `tar x ...` encouter
> existing file, it just hangs.
...
> I've tested with tar 1.27.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.1
Could do with a test case that fails. This works with tar 1.29-1 on
Arch Linux.
$ (cd src && tar --xattrs -cf - .) |
> (cd dest && tar --xattrs -xvf -)
./
./foo
$
$ touch src/bar
$ (cd src && tar --xattrs -cf - .) |
> (cd dest && tar --xattrs --skip-old-files -xvf -)
./
tar: .: skipping existing file
./foo
tar: ./foo: skipping existing file
./bar
$
$ (cd src && tar --xattrs -cf - .) |
> (cd dest && tar --xattrs --skip-old-files -xvf -)
./
tar: .: skipping existing file
./foo
tar: ./foo: skipping existing file
./bar
tar: ./bar: skipping existing file
$
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Cheers, Ralph.
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