diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi
index db8f986..d70d113 100644
--- a/doc/tar.texi
+++ b/doc/tar.texi
@@ -7597,7 +7597,7 @@ The following table summarizes pattern-matching default values:
 
 @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
 
@@ -12038,6 +12038,9 @@ 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:
 
diff --git a/src/names.c b/src/names.c
index ba4d509..3911f8c 100644
--- a/src/names.c
+++ b/src/names.c
@@ -966,10 +966,7 @@ collect_and_sort_names (void)
 
       if (name->found_count || name->directory)
 	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)
diff --git a/src/tar.c b/src/tar.c
index 928cfdd..22d3db1 100644
--- a/src/tar.c
+++ b/src/tar.c
@@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ 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,
@@ -815,8 +815,7 @@ ARGMATCH_VERIFY (atime_preserve_args, atime_preserve_types);
 /* Wildcard matching settings */
 enum wildcards
   {
-    default_wildcards, /* For exclusion == enable_wildcards,
-			  for inclusion == disable_wildcards */
+    default_wildcards, /* enable_wildcards */
     disable_wildcards,
     enable_wildcards
   };
@@ -847,7 +846,7 @@ struct tar_args        /* Variables used during option parsing */
   | 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)
@@ -2347,7 +2346,7 @@ 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.  */
 
diff --git a/tests/exclude01.at b/tests/exclude01.at
index 778a7fc..bd65ae0 100644
--- a/tests/exclude01.at
+++ b/tests/exclude01.at
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ testdir/dir2/file2
 testdir/dir3/
 NEXT
 testdir/dir1/*
+testdir/dir1/file1
 NEXT
 testdir/dir1/*
 NEXT