From 9e2233007c275c073929df545a224491750f9184 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergey Poznyakoff Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 09:27:53 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated --- doc/tar.texi | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi index 667e4e4..c9c7d81 100644 --- a/doc/tar.texi +++ b/doc/tar.texi @@ -201,6 +201,11 @@ @set xref-exclude-from @xref{exclude} @set pxref-exclude-from @pxref{exclude} +@set op-exclude-caches @kbd{--exclude-caches} +@set ref-exclude-from @ref{exclude-caches} +@set xref-exclude-from @xref{exclude-caches} +@set pxref-exclude-from @pxref{exclude-caches} + @set op-extract @kbd{--extract} (@kbd{--get}, @kbd{-x}) @set ref-extract @ref{extract} @set xref-extract @xref{extract} @@ -2748,6 +2753,11 @@ When performing operations, @command{tar} will skip files that match Similar to @samp{--exclude}, except @command{tar} will use the list of patterns in the file @var{file}. @FIXME-xref{} +@item --exclude-caches + +Automatically excludes all directories +containing a cache directory tag. @FIXME-xref{} + @item --file=@var{archive} @itemx -f @var{archive} @@ -6157,6 +6167,24 @@ added to the archive. @FIXME{do the exclude options files need to have stuff separated by newlines the same as the files-from option does?} +@table @kbd +@item --exclude-caches +Causes @command{tar} to ignore directories containing a cache directory tag. +@end table + +@findex exclude-caches +When creating an archive, +the @samp{--exclude-caches} option +causes @command{tar} to exclude all directories +that contain a @dfn{cache directory tag}. +A cache directory tag is a short file +with the well-known name @file{CACHEDIR.TAG} +and having a standard header +specified in @url{http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/spec.html}. +Various applications write cache directory tags +into directories they use to hold regenerable, non-precious data, +so that such data can be more easily excluded from backups. + @menu * controlling pattern-patching with exclude:: * problems with exclude:: -- 2.45.2