Bug 1621564 Comment 3 Edit History

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Original comment by
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It would have been nice to use --exclude-vcs instead but not all versions of tar has that option (needs to be at least 1.29) and even then would still have to add a few more to the list of files. Quoting from their manual page (https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/exclude.html):
As of version 1.32, the following files are excluded:
    `CVS/', and everything under it
    `RCS/', and everything under it
    `SCCS/', and everything under it
    `.git/', and everything under it
    `.gitignore'
    `.gitmodules'
    `.gitattributes'
    `.cvsignore'
    `.svn/', and everything under it
    `.arch-ids/', and everything under it
    `{arch}/', and everything under it
    `=RELEASE-ID'
    `=meta-update'
    `=update'
    `.bzr'
    `.bzrignore'
    `.bzrtags'
    `.hg'
    `.hgignore'
    `.hgrags'
    `_darcs'
Revision 1 by
on 
It would have been nice to use --exclude-vcs instead but not all versions of tar has that option (needs to be at least 1.29) and even then would still have to add a few more to the list of files. Quoting from their manual page (https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/exclude.html):
As of version 1.32, the following files are excluded:

    `CVS/', and everything under it
    `RCS/', and everything under it
    `SCCS/', and everything under it
    `.git/', and everything under it
    `.gitignore'
    `.gitmodules'
    `.gitattributes'
    `.cvsignore'
    `.svn/', and everything under it
    `.arch-ids/', and everything under it
    `{arch}/', and everything under it
    `=RELEASE-ID'
    `=meta-update'
    `=update'
    `.bzr'
    `.bzrignore'
    `.bzrtags'
    `.hg'
    `.hgignore'
    `.hgrags'
    `_darcs'

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