On 2/13/22 08:11, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
Man page: tar.1
Issue: archive --> archive itself
"%s: file is the archive; not dumped"
FWIW, as a non-native English reader but somewhat experienced tar user,
I prefer the current message to the change proposed. I think it is
already clear what "the archive" means.
Also, I'm not seeing how adding "itself" would lessen confusion much in
situations like this:
$ tar -cf foo.tar a b c foo.tar d e f g
tar: foo.tar: file is the archive; not dumped
Perhaps a rewrite of the diagnostic instead? Something like this?
$ tar -cf foo.tar a b c foo.tar d e f g
tar: foo.tar: archive cannot contain itself; not dumped
