[Bug-tar] Exclude options are ignored

2018-12-07 Thread cjdl01
Hi, I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but for some time, the last several revisions of tar have been ignoring the -X or the --exclude options. This was mentioned in the debian bugs here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=831007 It is also mentioned in the debian for

Re: [Bug-tar] Exclude options are ignored

2018-12-07 Thread cjdl01
Ah, I see... if I move the -X to the position of the first argument, it seems to work now. That is fantastic! Please disregard, and thank you for the fix. Quoting cjdl01 : Hi, I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but for some time, the last several revisions of tar have