From: Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 25611@debbugs.gnu.org, ohwoeowho@gmail.com
Subject: bug#25611: 26.0.50; dired-do-compress unpacks .tgz files
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 10:42:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <26463.1488825744@alto> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Mar 2017 12:51:53 -0500." <lplgsiz41y.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
Glenn Morris wrote:
> [...] I do not expect a command that
> "compresses or uncompresses files" to extract a tar file. These should
> be separate steps/commands IMO. Exactly as you said in your initial
> report.
That would be my preference, too. I'm just not sure how much of that
preference comes from mental inertia. :-) That's why my later emails
focused on the data loss and security angles.
If we do keep the extraction functionality, the docstring for
dired-do-compress definitely needs updating.
cheers,
mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-06 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-03 3:50 bug#25611: 26.0.50; dired-do-compress unpacks .tgz files Mike Kupfer
2017-02-03 17:42 ` Glenn Morris
2017-03-05 0:01 ` Mike Kupfer
2017-03-06 10:53 ` Oleh Krehel
2017-03-06 17:28 ` Mike Kupfer
2017-03-06 17:51 ` Glenn Morris
2017-03-06 18:42 ` Mike Kupfer [this message]
2017-03-06 19:03 ` Mike Kupfer
2018-11-21 18:13 ` Glenn Morris
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