Hey who wants to learn a dumb fact about me.
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I'm pretty sure it's calling itself cowardly. That's how I always read it. It's a coward, so it refuses to create an empty archive.
I mean this is no different from most software status messages, where there's an implied "I/I'm" (or "tar is" in this case, which is what 'tar:' means) in front. [I'm] starting services. [I'm] connecting to the server. [I'm/tar is] cowardly refusing to create an empty archive.