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suggestion for confusing messages from tar-1.11.1

#1027
From: James Ganong
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 21:13
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i think the messages that tar spits out with -v and -g are confusing.
here is my suggestion


the following part of gnu.c looks to see if it has seen a directory's
name before, and if its inode as changed.


                                if(dp=get_dir(namebuf)) {
                                        if(   dp->dev!=hs.st_dev
                                           || dp->ino!=hs.st_ino) {
                                                if(f_verbose)
                                                        msg("directory %s has be
en renamed.",namebuf);
                                                dp->allnew=1;
                                                dp->dev=hs.st_dev;
                                                dp->ino=hs.st_ino;
                                        }
                                        dp->dir_text="";
                                } else {
                                        if(f_verbose)
                                                msg("Directory %s is new",namebu

% mkdir e/e
% ./tar -cvf /dev/null -g r e
./tar: Directory e/e is	new
e/
e/e/
% mv e/e e/f
% ./tar -cvf /dev/null -g r e
./tar: Directory e/f is	new
e/
e/f/
% mkdir e/e
% rmdir e/f
% mv e/e e/f
% !.
./tar -cvf /dev/null -g	r e
./tar: directory e/f has been renamed.
e/
e/f/

I think that instead of "directory %s has been renamed" it should say
"directory %s is a new directory reusing an old directory name"

and instead of "Directory %s is new" it should say
"Directory %s is a new directory name"
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From: jeg@ced.berkeley.edu (James Ganong)
Subject: suggestion for confusing messages from tar-1.11.1
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:13:41 GMT
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