On 2024-01-30 11:02, Paul Eggert wrote:
Perhaps it's time to evolve tar in the direction that it should have gone back in the 1980s. That is, we add an option --remote to require remote interpretation of file names, and warn if a remote file name is used without --remote. Eventually we can make --remote the default. (There may be a better option name than "--remote"; we can look at other programs for ideas.)
Oops, I meant to write "Eventually we can make --force-local the default." (Did I say this area was confusing? :-)
