Tar should remove empty directories where it wants to put a non-directory.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/tar.test b/tests/tar.test
index dbe28d78..4b2f2120 100644
--- a/tests/tar.test
+++ b/tests/tar.test
@@ -274,6 +274,12 @@ testcmd 'exclude' '--exclude skip -cvf tar.tar folder && echo yes' \
   'folder/\nyes\n' '' ''
 rm -rf folder tar.tar
 
+mkdir -p one/two; echo hello > one/two/three; tar czf test.tar one/two/three
+rm one/two/three; mkdir one/two/three
+testcmd 'replace dir with file' '-xf test.tar && cat one/two/three' \
+  'hello\n' '' ''
+rm -rf one test.tar
+
 if false
 then