Re: [Bug-tar] 'tar --version' in 1.14.90

[Joerg Schilling]

Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> wrote:

> Joerg Schilling <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > From my tests on GNU tar-1.14.90 I can say that incremental restores
> > with a vanilla GNU tar do not even pass simple test cases.
> > Could you comment this?
>
> As you might have noticed from its version number, it is an *alpha*
> release and as such is not supposed to handle everything. Wait for the
> stable release.

I am not sure if you are aware about the fact that these problems are 
independent of the version I did test. They are present as long as 
GNU tar claims to support incrementals - for 12 years.

Jörg

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