Re: [Bug-tar] keep newer files bug?

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hi Helmut,

Thanks a lot for the detailed descriprion in your letter. It does,
unfortunately, contain an initial misinterpretation of options
--keep-newer-files, --overwrite and --unlink-first: namely, all the
three options are *mutually exclusive*, i.e. it is senseless to
use any two of them in a single invocation, since the option that occurs
in the command line last will disable all previous ones.

In other words, running

  tar --keep-newer-files --overwrite ...

actually means that only --overwrite is in effect.

Regards,
Sergey