qtar1
A somewhat shorter tar invocation
Usage
qtar [-x]
[{--ext | --svn}]
archive_file
[tar-options ...]
files ...
Options
-
-x -
Exclude SCM directories like "CVS", ".svn", ".hg" and ".git".
-
--ext -
Sort files by extension
-
--svn -
Sort files such that file.c and .svn/file.c are next to each other, to yield better compression of SVN checkout tar archives where the .svn file is often a copy of the former.
Releases
4 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 1 time.
--svn since Debian 12 (Bookworm).