Paul Eggert wrote: > On 11/22/11 03:35, Gary Partis wrote: > >> How ever, neither a warning message or exit code indicates that such an >> error occurred. > > Thanks, I expect this is a documentation bug that should get fixed.
Hi Paul, Isn't this a regression? This is the behavior I deliberately choose back when I set the TAR_OPTIONS envvar to include --keep-old-files. I wanted to protect myself from accidentally clobbering an existing tree, since virtually all of my manual uses of tar expect *not* to modify an existing hierarchy, but to create a brand new one.
