From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:06:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tar: on extract, -o is --no-same-owner
Message-ID: <m2ws2lt8ba.fsf@whitebox.home>
In-Reply-To: <m38wf1dsjf.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> I don't quite understand why 'o' has to be spelled using long name
> --no-same-owner, instead of just correcting the ordering of "old style"
> short options to have 'f' last, i.e.
>
>   $(TAR) xof -
>
> and not (current)
>
>   $(TAR) xfo -

Both do exactly the same, traditionally.  Note the lack of '-' preceding
'xfo', which does not use getopt-style option parsing.

Andreas.

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