[Bug-tar] tar 1.24: --strip-components=2 done to early.

[Christian Volkmann]

Hi all,

tar 1.24 seems to do the --strip-components first, before a match was done.

This breaks older usages.

Best regards,
Christian


How to reproduce:
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mkdir -p strip1/strip2/strip/
touch strip1/strip2/strip/a

tar cf strip.tar strip1
tar --strip-components=2 -xvf strip.tar strip1


Results:

tar 1.24:
> mkdir -p strip1/strip2/strip/
> touch strip1/strip2/strip/a
> tar cf strip.tar strip1
> tar --strip-components=2 -xvf strip.tar strip1
tar: strip1: Not found in archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors


tar 1.23:
> mkdir -p strip1/strip2/strip/
> touch strip1/strip2/strip/a
> tar cf strip.tar strip1
> tar --strip-components=2 -xvf strip.tar strip1
strip1/strip2/strip/
strip1/strip2/strip/a

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