This seems to have been an intentional upstream change. --no-recursion now applies only to the following options, until cancelled by a following --recursion.
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/reproducible-builds/Week-of-Mon-20151012/003642.html http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=2bd9c15391b0bd6ef0bff76aebf09cfb53003199 The upstream documentation is fixed in Git (post-1.29) to put --no-recursion before -T -. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=a2fd82f62285d647dac968108eee02457255eff7 Anders
