On 08.12.2011 00:17, Bdale Garbee wrote:
However, the --help output should first be fixed to remove the note that
--null resets -C, since that seems to be outdated now. The info
documentation seems to be correct here.
Do you have time to generate a suitable patch?
I was, for some reason, unable to actually build tar on my wheezy system
from the .dsc right now, but attached is the patch that should work.
I'll be happy to fix it later if it doesn't actually work. I didn't
change the po/*.po files, since I don't really know the proper way to do
that.
diff --git a/src/tar.c b/src/tar.c
index ac44de8..fa25d7d 100644
--- a/src/tar.c
+++ b/src/tar.c
@@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ static struct argp_option options[] = {
{"files-from", 'T', N_("FILE"), 0,
N_("get names to extract or create from FILE"), GRID+1 },
{"null", NULL_OPTION, 0, 0,
- N_("-T reads null-terminated names, disable -C"), GRID+1 },
+ N_("-T reads null-terminated names"), GRID+1 },
{"no-null", NO_NULL_OPTION, 0, 0,
N_("disable the effect of the previous --null option"), GRID+1 },
{"unquote", UNQUOTE_OPTION, 0, 0,
