Re: [Bug-tar] Incremental extract improvement

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hi Ian,
 
> Over here in the Amanda project, we get users *all the time* who are
> confused why other files in the directory structure they just restored
> to have  suddenly been blown away.

This can mean two things: either these users don't read the
documentation or that the documentation itself is poorly written.

> IMNSHO it would be better if the incremental 
> restore works analogously to the non-incremental restore: That is, to not 
Fcc: sent-messages
> delete stuff not mentioned in the archive.

Than it would not be incremental restore. It's main purpose is to
restore the filesystem in exactly the same state it had when dumped.
 
> You should also consider the possibility that the archive has been created 
> with exclude options, which presumably should be excluded from deletion at 
> restore, as well.

Yes, this is being worked upon.

Regards,
Sergey