[Bug-tar] feature request: allow comments in files for the (-T and -X options

[Anton Tichawa]

Hello, GNU!

Recently I started automating backups, using tar with file lists (-T and -X options). It seems that comments, i. e. lines starting with '#', are not allowed in such files, e. g. with a a file "weekly":

# files to include in weekly backups
/usr/src/dataman/*
/var/log/boot*

tar produces an error when called with

tar cvzf blah -T weekly

but things work fine when I remove the comment.

IMHO, the possibility to include comments to self-document file lists would be very nice.

Many thanks,

Anton Tichawa.