Hi Eric, Here's what running these commands with the current git HEAD produces:
$ tar --create -f ../x.tar . $ ls -l ../x.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 gray gray 1464320 Nov 12 12:49 ../x.tar $ rm -f ../snap $ tar --create -g ../snap -f ../x.tar . $ ls -l ../x.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 gray gray 1464320 Nov 12 12:50 ../x.tar $ tar tvf ../x.tar drwxr-xr-x gray/gray 35 2025-11-12 12:44 ./ drwxr-xr-x gray/gray 4 2025-11-12 12:44 ./dir without brackets/ drwxr-xr-x gray/gray 4 2025-11-12 12:48 ./test [xxx]/ -rw-r--r-- gray/gray 5 2025-11-12 12:44 ./dir without brackets/t -rwxr-xr-x gray/gray 1450544 2025-11-12 12:48 ./test [xxx]/b $ cat ../snap GNU tar-1.35.90-2 1762944656846071932017629445082381104936451213934894./test [xxx]Yb017629442778000878556451213934892.Ddir without bracketsDtest [xxx]017629442978310898236451213934893./dir without bracketsYt As far as I can tell, everything is as expected. Regards, Sergey
