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authorWerner Koch <[email protected]>2019-03-06 19:08:26 +0000
committerWerner Koch <[email protected]>2019-03-06 19:08:26 +0000
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parentagent: Re-introduce --enable-extended-key-format. (diff)
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gpgtar: Make option -C work for archive creation.
* tools/gpgtar-create.c (gpgtar_create): Switch to the -C directory. -- The -C option is pretty useful given that pattern are always relative to the current directory. In contrast to GNU tar, the switching is done only once. Signed-off-by: Werner Koch <[email protected]>
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@@ -2014,10 +2014,11 @@ Do not actually output the extracted files.
@item --directory @var{dir}
@itemx -C @var{dir}
@opindex directory
-Extract the files into the directory @var{dir}. The
-default is to take the directory name from
-the input filename. If no input filename is known a directory named
-@file{GPGARCH} is used.
+Extract the files into the directory @var{dir}. The default is to
+take the directory name from the input filename. If no input filename
+is known a directory named @file{GPGARCH} is used. For tarball
+creation, switch to directory @var{dir} before performing any
+operations.
@item --files-from @var{file}
@itemx -T @var{file}