Tar did change the exclude semantics between slink and potato: Patterns containing / now exclude only file names whose prefix match.
>From tar info: A PATTERN containing `/' excludes a name if an initial subsequence of the name's components matches PATTERN; a PATTERN without `/' excludes a name if it matches any of its name components. For example, the pattern `*b/RCS' contains `/', so it excludes `blob/RCS' and `.blob/RCS/f' but not `blob/RCSit/RCS' or `/blob/RCS', whereas the pattern `RCS' excludes all these names. Conversely, the pattern `*.o' lacks `/', so it excludes `.f.o', `d/f.o', and `d.o/f'. Maybe this is causing your problems ... (it did mine). -Igor Mozetic
