* configure.ac, NEWS: Version 1.20.90

[chaz/tar] / NEWS

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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-12-05
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2008-06-26

 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
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 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
 \f

-version 1.19.1 (CVS)
+version 1.20.90 (CVS)
+
+* New short option -J
+
+A shortcut for --lzma.
+
+* New option --lzop
+
+* New option --no-auto-compress
+
+Cancels the effect of previous --auto-compress (-a) option.
+
+* Compressed format recognition
+
+If tar is unable to determine archive compression format, it falls
+back to using archive suffix to determine it.
+
+* VCS support.
+
+Using --exclude-vcs handles also files used internally by Bazaar,
+Mercurial and Darcs.
+
+\f
+
+version 1.20 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2008-04-14

 
 * New option --auto-compress (-a)
 
 
 * New option --auto-compress (-a)
 


@@ -22,15 +46,47 @@ they refer to, instead of creating usual hard link members (type '1').
 
 This action allows to specify an action to be executed upon hitting a
 checkpoint.  Recognized actions are: dot, echo (the default),
 
 This action allows to specify an action to be executed upon hitting a
 checkpoint.  Recognized actions are: dot, echo (the default),

-echo=string, and sleep=value.  Any number of `--checkpoint-action'
-options can be specified, the actions will be executed in order of
-their appearance in the command line.  
+echo=string, ttyout=string, exec=cmdline, and sleep=value.  Any number
+of `--checkpoint-action' options can be specified, the actions will be
+executed in order of their appearance in the command line.  See
+chapter 3.8 "Checkpoints" for a complete description.
+
+* New options --no-check-device, --check-device.
+
+The `--no-check-device' option disables comparing device numbers during
+preparatory stage of an incremental dump.  This allows to avoid
+creating full dumps if the device numbers change (e.g. when using an
+LVM snapshot).
+
+The `--check-device' option enables comparing device numbers.  This is
+the default.  This option is provided to undo the effect of the previous
+`--no-check-device' option, e.g. if it was set in TAR_OPTIONS
+environment variable.
+
+* The --transform option.
+
+Any number of `--transform' options can be given in the command line.
+The specified transformations will be applied in turn.
+
+The argument to `--transform' option can be a list of replace
+expressions, separated by a semicolon (as in `sed').
+
+Filename transformations are applied to symbolic link targets
+during both creation and extraction.  Tar 1.19 used them only
+during extraction.
+
+For a detailed description, see chapter 6.7 "Modifying File and Member
+Names". 

 
 * Info (end-of-volume) scripts
 
 The value of the blocking factor is made available to info and
 checkpoint scripts via environment variable TAR_BLOCKING_FACTOR.
 
 
 * Info (end-of-volume) scripts
 
 The value of the blocking factor is made available to info and
 checkpoint scripts via environment variable TAR_BLOCKING_FACTOR.
 

+* Incremental archives
+
+Improved (sped up) extracting from incremental archives.
+

 * Bugfixes.
 ** Fix bug introduced in version 1.19: tar refused to update non-existing
 archives.
 * Bugfixes.
 ** Fix bug introduced in version 1.19: tar refused to update non-existing
 archives.


@@ -966,7 +1022,7 @@ Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason.
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 Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003,
 \f
 
 Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003,

-2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

 
 This file is part of GNU tar.
 
 
 This file is part of GNU tar.