How to avoid tar to overwrites a file with same name when using create option?

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Issue

I ran

# tar -cvf bla xuxu.tar

And bla file that already existed was overwrite.

Also the xuxu.tar wasn't created.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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