Re: [Bug-tar] Incremental extract improvement

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Wolfram Kleff <address@hidden> wrote:

> In case of an incremental extract, we might experience the case that a new 
> file/symlink etc. should be written over a dir with subdirs in it.
[...]
> in case of an incremental extract, we might mess 
> the previous dir-content because the incremental extract tries to recursive 
> delete the previous dir-content.

This is the purpose of the incremental extraction: to restore exact
Fcc: sent-messages
state of the directory at the time the dump was made. Any file or
directory not present in the archive should be removed (for directories,
this implies recursive removal). I don't see anything wrong with it.
Can you please give an example when this behavior is not desired?

Regards,
Sergey