Debian bug report logs - #1144
tar --listed-incremental doesn't restore renames

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From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
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Subject: tar --listed-incremental doesn't restore renames

Package: tar
Version: 1.11.8-1

I may be doing something wrong here, but reading the documentation
(such as it is) and the tar-1.11.8/scripts/level[01] files (and the
associated WARNING) file seems to suggest that this is what I should
do:

chiark:d> ll
total 6
drwxrwsr-x   2 ian      ian          1024 Jul 23 01:20 ./
drwxrwsr-x  21 ian      ian          5120 Jul 23 01:21 ../
chiark:d> mkdir directory
chiark:d> echo hi >directory/file
chiark:d> tar --listed=list -vvcf level0tar directory 
drwxrwsr-x ian/ian           0 Jul 23 01:21 1995 directory/
-rw-rw-r-- ian/ian           3 Jul 23 01:21 1995 directory/file
chiark:d> tar vvtf level0tar 
drwxrwsr-x ian/ian           7 Jul 23 01:21 1995 directory/
-rw-rw-r-- ian/ian           3 Jul 23 01:21 1995 directory/file
chiark:d> cp list list2
chiark:d> mv directory/file directory/spong
chiark:d> tar --listed=list2 -vvcf level1tar directory
drwxrwsr-x ian/ian           0 Jul 23 01:22 1995 directory/
chiark:d> ll directory/
total 3
drwxrwsr-x   2 ian      ian          1024 Jul 23 01:22 ./
drwxrwsr-x   3 ian      ian          1024 Jul 23 01:22 ../
-rw-rw-r--   1 ian      ian             3 Jul 23 01:21 spong
chiark:d> rm -r directory 
chiark:d> tar -Gvvxf level0tar 
drwxrwsr-x ian/ian           7 Jul 23 01:21 1995 directory/
-rw-rw-r-- ian/ian           3 Jul 23 01:21 1995 directory/file
chiark:d> tar -Gvvxf level1tar 
drwxrwsr-x ian/ian           8 Jul 23 01:22 1995 directory/
tar: Deleting directory/file
chiark:d> ll directory/
total 2
drwxrwsr-x   2 ian      ian          1024 Jul 23 01:23 ./
drwxrwsr-x   3 ian      ian          1024 Jul 23 01:23 ../
chiark:d> 

(BTW, I want to use `tar' rather than `dump' because I don't want a
backup program that grobbles around in the raw disk !)