Re: File Exclusion

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
> I just found that tarsnap mimics gtar's behaviour for excluding files.
> It excludes a pathname if it contains a certain pattern, rather than
> matching the entire pathname against the pattern.

Right, I decided that it would be less confusing if Tarsnap's handling
of --exclude was the same as other tar utilities.  (Not just gtar --
bsdtar and I believe star are the same.)

> Is it planed to change this?

Nope.

> Or would you at least add the option to
> read a file list from a file or stdin (just like cpio does)?

You mean like "-T -" does?

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