--- 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;