From tar's NEWS: " version 1.15.90 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-02-19
* New features
** Any number of -T (--files-from) options may be used in the command line.
The file specified with -T may include any valid `tar' options,
including another -T option.
Compatibility note: older versions of tar would only recognize -C
as an option name within the file list file. Now any file whose name
starts with - is handled as an option. To insert file names starting with
dash, use the --add-file option.
** List files containing null-separated file names are detected and processed
automatically. It is no longer necessary to give the --null option.
** New option --no-unquote disables the unquoting of input file names.
This is useful for processing output from `find dir -print0'.
An orthogonal option --unquote is provided as well.
"
Given how much depends on the behaviour of tar, such incompatible
changes are extremely unwise, but I doubt we want to differ from
upstream on this.
Ben.
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