One wonders why tar even has an option (and a default!) to not recurse. What would be the use case for that? The "normal" use case seems to have a recursive ar

One wonders why tar even has an option (and a default!) to not recurse. What would be the use case for that? The "normal" use case seems to have a recursive archival. Sounds like somebody chose the wrong default... would be an interesting software archaelogy project to figure out where this "feature" originated.