Re: Option '--exclude-backups' does not work

Hello,

> I looked high and low to see if this bug had already been reported.

It has been already fixed.  You can see the patch here:

   http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=fa307a66

> There seems to be no repository of "tar" bugs.

See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/.

Regards,
Sergey