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 GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.
 GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes.

-Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003,
-2004, 2005
-Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-See the end for copying conditions.
-

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

-version 1.15.2 (CVS version -- unreleased)
+version 1.15.91 - Sergey Poznyakoff, (CVS version)
+
+* Incompatible changes
+
+** Globbing
+
+Previous versions of GNU tar assumed shell-style globbing when
+extracting from or listing an archive.  For example:
+
+  tar xf foo.tar '*.c'
+
+would extract all files whose names end in '.c'.  This behavior
+was not documented and was incompatible with traditional tar
+implementations.  Therefore, starting from this version, GNU tar
+no longer uses globbing by default.  For example, the above invocation
+is now interpreted as a request to extract from the archive the file
+named '*.c'.
+
+To treat member names as globbing patterns, use --wildcards option.  
+So, if you wish tar to mimic the behavior of versions up to 1.15.90,
+set 'TAR_OPTIONS=--wildcards'.
+
+The exact way tar interprets member names is controlled by the
+following command line options:
+
+     --wildcards              use wildcards 
+     --anchored               patterns match file name start
+     --ignore-case            ignore case
+     --wildcards-match-slash  wildcards match `/'
+
+Each of these options has a '--no-' counterpart that disables its
+effect (e.g. --no-wildcards).
+
+These options affect both the interpretation of member names from 
+command line and that of the exclusion patterns (given with --exclude
+and --exclude-from options). The defaults are:

 
 

+ 1. For member names: --no-wildcards --anchored
+ 2. For exclusion patterns: --wildcards --no-anchored --wildcards-match-slash
+
+The options can appear multiple times in the command line, thereby
+changing the way command line arguments are interpreted.  For example,
+to use case-insensitive matching in exclude patterns and to revert to
+case-sensitive matching for the rest of command line, one could write:
+
+  tar xf foo.tar --ignore-case --exclude-from=FILE --no-ignore-case file.name
+
+** Short option -l is now an alias of --check-links option, which complies
+with UNIX98.  This ends the transition period started with version 1.14.
+  

 * New features
 
 * New features
 

-* Any number of -T (--files-from) options may be used in the command line.
+** New incremental snapshot file format keeps information about file names 
+as well as that about directories.
+
+
+\f
+version 1.15.90 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-02-19
+
+* New features
+
+** Any number of -T (--files-from) options may be used in the command line.

 The file specified with -T may include any valid `tar' options,
 including another -T option.
 Compatibility note: older versions of tar would only recognize -C
 The file specified with -T may include any valid `tar' options,
 including another -T option.
 Compatibility note: older versions of tar would only recognize -C


@@ -18,14 +70,14 @@ as an option name within the file list file.  Now any file whose name
 starts with - is handled as an option.  To insert file names starting with
 dash, use the --add-file option.
 
 starts with - is handled as an option.  To insert file names starting with
 dash, use the --add-file option.
 

-* List files containing null-separated file names are detected and processed
+** List files containing null-separated file names are detected and processed

 automatically.  It is no longer necessary to give the --null option.
 
 automatically.  It is no longer necessary to give the --null option.
 

-* New option --no-unquote disables the unquoting of input file names.
+** New option --no-unquote disables the unquoting of input file names.

 This is useful for processing output from `find dir -print0'.
 An orthogonal option --unquote is provided as well.
 
 This is useful for processing output from `find dir -print0'.
 An orthogonal option --unquote is provided as well.
 

-* New option --test-label tests the archive volume label.
+** New option --test-label tests the archive volume label.

 If an argument is specified, the label is compared against its value.
 Tar exits with code 0 if the two strings match, and with code 2 if
 they do not.
 If an argument is specified, the label is compared against its value.
 Tar exits with code 0 if the two strings match, and with code 2 if
 they do not.


@@ -33,21 +85,46 @@ they do not.
 If no argument is given, the --verbose option is implied.  In this case,
 tar prints the label name if present and exits with code 0.
 
 If no argument is given, the --verbose option is implied.  In this case,
 tar prints the label name if present and exits with code 0.
 

-* New option --show-stored-names.  When creating an archive in verbose mode,
+** New option --show-stored-names.  When creating an archive in verbose mode,

 it lists member names as stored in the archive, i.e., with any eventual
 prefixes removed.  The option is useful, for example, while comparing
 `tar cv' and `tar tv' outputs.
 
 it lists member names as stored in the archive, i.e., with any eventual
 prefixes removed.  The option is useful, for example, while comparing
 `tar cv' and `tar tv' outputs.
 

-* New option --atime-preserve=system, which uses the O_NOATIME feature
+** New option --to-command pipes the contents of archive members to the
+specified command.
+
+** New option --atime-preserve=system, which uses the O_NOATIME feature

 of recent Linux kernels to avoid some problems when preserving file
 access times.
 
 of recent Linux kernels to avoid some problems when preserving file
 access times.
 

-* Better support for full-resolution time stamps.  Tar cannot restore
+** New option --delay-directory-restore delays restoring modification times
+and permissions of extracted directories until the end of extraction.
+This is necessary for restoring from archives with unusual member
+ordering (in particular, those created with --no-recursion option).
+This option is implied when restoring from incremental archives.
+
+** New option --restrict prohibits use of some potentially harmful tar
+options.  Currently it disables '!' escape in multi-volume name menu.
+
+** New options --quoting-style and --quote-chars control the way tar
+quotes member names on output. The --quoting-style takes an argument
+specifying the quoting style to use (literal, shell, shell-always,
+c, escape, locale, clocale). The argument to --quote-chars is a string
+specifying characters to quote, even if the selected quoting style
+would not quote them otherwise. The option --no-quote-chars is
+provided to disable quoting certain characters.
+
+** The end-of-volume script (introduced with --info-script option) can
+get current archive name from the environment variable TAR_ARCHIVE and
+the volume number from the variable TAR_VOLUME.  It can alter the
+archive name by writing new name to the file descriptor 3.
+
+** Better support for full-resolution time stamps.  Tar cannot restore

 time stamps to full nanosecond resolution, though, until the kernel
 guys get their act together and give us a system call to set file time
 stamps to nanosecond resolution.
 
 time stamps to full nanosecond resolution, though, until the kernel
 guys get their act together and give us a system call to set file time
 stamps to nanosecond resolution.
 

-* The -v option now prints time stamps only to 1-minute resolution,
+** The -v option now prints time stamps only to 1-minute resolution,

 not full resolution, to avoid using up too many output columns.
 Nanosecond resolution is now supported, but that would be too much.
 
 not full resolution, to avoid using up too many output columns.
 Nanosecond resolution is now supported, but that would be too much.
 


@@ -62,6 +139,16 @@ was not processed correctly.
 ** Previous version created invalid archives when files shrink
 during reading.
 ** Compare mode (tar d) hanged when trying to compare file contents.
 ** Previous version created invalid archives when files shrink
 during reading.
 ** Compare mode (tar d) hanged when trying to compare file contents.

+** Previous versions in certain cases failed to restore directory
+modification times.
+** When creating an archive, do not attempt to store files whose
+meta-data cannot be stored in the header due to format limitations
+(for ustar and v7 formats).
+** The --version option now also outputs information about copyright,
+license, and credits.  This reverts to the behavior of tar 1.14 and
+earlier, and conforms to the GNU coding standards.  The --license (-L)
+option introduced in tar 1.15 has been removed, since it's no longer
+needed.

 
 \f
 version 1.15.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-21
 
 \f
 version 1.15.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-21


@@ -707,8 +794,8 @@ 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
-Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003,
+2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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