--- tar-1.17/doc/tar.texi.wildcards	2007-06-28 13:23:46.000000000 +0200

+++ tar-1.17/doc/tar.texi	2007-06-28 13:23:46.000000000 +0200

@@ -6871,7 +6871,7 @@ The following table summarizes pattern-m

 @multitable @columnfractions .3 .7

 @headitem Members @tab Default settings

-@item Inclusion @tab @option{--no-wildcards --anchored --no-wildcards-match-slash}

+@item Inclusion @tab @option{--wildcards --anchored --wildcards-match-slash}

 @item Exclusion @tab @option{--wildcards --no-anchored --wildcards-match-slash}

 @end multitable

@@ -10666,6 +10666,9 @@ version of this document is available at

 @table @asis

 @item Use of globbing patterns when listing and extracting.

+Note: Following is true for original unpatched GNU tar.

+For compatibility reasons, the old behavior was preserved.

+

 Previous versions of GNU tar assumed shell-style globbing when

 extracting from or listing an archive.  For example:

--- tar-1.17/src/tar.c.wildcards	2007-06-28 13:23:46.000000000 +0200

+++ tar-1.17/src/tar.c	2007-06-28 13:23:46.000000000 +0200

@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ static struct argp_option options[] = {

   {"no-ignore-case", NO_IGNORE_CASE_OPTION, 0, 0,

    N_("case sensitive matching (default)"), GRID+1 },

   {"wildcards", WILDCARDS_OPTION, 0, 0,

-   N_("use wildcards (default for exclusion)"), GRID+1 },

+   N_("use wildcards (default)"), GRID+1 },

   {"no-wildcards", NO_WILDCARDS_OPTION, 0, 0,

    N_("verbatim string matching"), GRID+1 },

   {"no-wildcards-match-slash", NO_WILDCARDS_MATCH_SLASH_OPTION, 0, 0,

@@ -780,8 +780,7 @@ ARGMATCH_VERIFY (atime_preserve_args, at

 /* Wildcard matching settings */

 enum wildcards

   {

-    default_wildcards, /* For exclusion == enable_wildcards,

-			  for inclusion == disable_wildcards */

+    default_wildcards, /* enable_wildcards */

     disable_wildcards,

     enable_wildcards

   };

@@ -809,7 +808,7 @@ struct tar_args        /* Variables used

   | recursion_option)

 #define MAKE_INCL_OPTIONS(args) \

- ((((args)->wildcards == enable_wildcards) ? EXCLUDE_WILDCARDS : 0) \

+ ((((args)->wildcards != disable_wildcards) ? EXCLUDE_WILDCARDS : 0) \

   | (args)->include_anchored \

   | (args)->matching_flags \

   | recursion_option)

@@ -2126,7 +2125,7 @@ decode_options (int argc, char **argv)

   /* Warn about implicit use of the wildcards in command line arguments.

      See TODO */

-  warn_regex_usage = args.wildcards == default_wildcards;

+  warn_regex_usage = 0; //args.wildcards == default_wildcards;

   /* Derive option values and check option consistency.  */

--- tar-1.17/src/names.c.wildcards	2007-04-03 14:17:13.000000000 +0200

+++ tar-1.17/src/names.c	2007-06-28 13:30:48.000000000 +0200

@@ -812,10 +812,7 @@ collect_and_sort_names (void)

       next_name = name->next;

       if (name->found_count || name->dir_contents)

 	continue;

-      if (name->matching_flags & EXCLUDE_WILDCARDS)

-	/* NOTE: EXCLUDE_ANCHORED is not relevant here */

-	/* FIXME: just skip regexps for now */

-	continue;

+

       chdir_do (name->change_dir);

       if (name->name[0] == 0)

 	continue;