On Sat, Jan 20 2018, Randall S. Becker jotted: > I will reissue this particular patch shortly. It makes sense to base that submission on the next branch instead of master. I have a patch queued up there which adds two new tar invocations. Also re your commit message see the formatting guide in Documentation/SubmittingPatches, in particular: instead of: - Add a brief subject line - Just make the body be a normal paragraph instead of a bullet-point list with one item.