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- Call finish to finalize the archive [recommended by tar](https://docs.rs/tar/0.4.41/tar/struct.Builder.html#method.append_dir_all). - Show an example of adding an archive **without** renaming it. - Callout differences between `tar::Builder` defaults and `tar(1)` defaults ## Context On seeing these docs I was unsure if there was another, better way, to add all the contents of one directory into an archive. After researching, I see people use this function by call it with an empty string. I feel this is a common operation and would like to see it spelled out in the documentation. In addition, I hit an edge case where `tar(1)` produced significantly smaller files than the `tar` crate, reproduction: https://github.com/schneems/tar_comparison/blob/bfd420a012b46e80435cf4e7c67ca1661357fde3/README.md. It turns out that the problem was that the directory contained symlinks to other files in the same directory. The `follow_symlinks(true)` behavior is on by default and is the opposite of the `tar(1)` default. It caused the program to duplicate the same file multiple times which significantly increased the archive size. I believe someone looking for "How to Compress a directory into tarball" is likely looking to replicate `tar czf` behavior and would like to know the main differences.
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