targo provides functions to create or extract tar archives. This package has no dependencies and relies only on the Go standard library.

• func Create(destPath, dirPath string) error: create a tar archive from dirPath into destPath.
• func CreateInPlace(dirPath string) error: create a tar archive from dirPath "in-place", ie dirPath is removed once the archive has been created and a dirPath.tar file is created.
• func Extract(destPath, archivePath string) error: extract a tar archive from archivePath into destPath.
• func ExtractInPlace(archivePath string) error: extract a tar archive from archivePath "in-place", ie archivePath is removed after the archive has been extracted (note: it expects archivePath to have a file extension).

• As pointed out in the documentation of Create and CreateInPlace (see #1), the use of filepath.Dir introduces different behavior depending on the way you define your path:
  • With '/foo/bar', filepath.Dir will consider 'bar' as the last token and return '/foo'. This will produce a tar archive with the 'bar' directory as the root directory of the archive.
  • With '/foo/bar/', filepath.Dir will consider '/.' as the last token and return '/foo/bar'. As a consequence, the content of the 'bar' directory will be placed at the root of the archive.