Fix extraction from concatenated incremental archives.

[chaz/tar] / NEWS

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@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-02-14
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-11-07

 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>
 
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-version 1.27.90 (Git)
+version 1.28, 2014-07-28

 
 * New checkpoint action: totals
 
 
 * New checkpoint action: totals
 


@@ -48,11 +48,27 @@ is uniform and reproducible.  Using --sort=inode reduces the number
 of disk seeks made when creating the archive and thus can considerably
 speed up archivation.
 
 of disk seeks made when creating the archive and thus can considerably
 speed up archivation.
 

+* New exclusion options
+
+  --exclude-ignore=FILE   Before dumping a directory check if it
+                          contains FILE, and if so read exclude
+                          patterns for this directory from FILE.
+  --exclude-ignore-recursive=FILE
+                          Same as above, but the exclusion patterns
+                          read from FILE remain in effect for any
+                         subdirectory, recursively.
+  --exclude-vcs-ignores   Read exclude tags from VCS ignore files,
+                          where such files exist.  Supported VCS's
+                          are: CVS, Git, Bazaar, Mercurial.
+                         
+
+* Tar refuses to read input from and write output to a tty device.
+

 * Manpages
 
 This release includes official tar(1) and rmt(8) manpages.
 Distribution maintainers are kindly asked to use these instead of the
 * Manpages
 
 This release includes official tar(1) and rmt(8) manpages.
 Distribution maintainers are kindly asked to use these instead of the

-home-made pages they provided so far.
+home-made pages they have been providing so far.

   
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 version 1.27.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2013-11-17
   
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 version 1.27.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2013-11-17


@@ -353,7 +369,7 @@ Modification times in ustar header blocks of extended headers
 are set to mtimes of the corresponding archive members.  This
 can be overridden by the
 
 are set to mtimes of the corresponding archive members.  This
 can be overridden by the
 

-  --pax-opion='exthdr.mtime=STRING'
+  --pax-option='exthdr.mtime=STRING'

 
 command line option.  The STRING is either number of seconds since
 the Epoch or a "Time reference" (see below).
 
 command line option.  The STRING is either number of seconds since
 the Epoch or a "Time reference" (see below).


@@ -363,7 +379,7 @@ headers are set to the time when tar was invoked.
 
 This can be overridden by the
 
 
 This can be overridden by the
 

-  --pax-opion='globexthdr.mtime=STRING'
+  --pax-option='globexthdr.mtime=STRING'

 
 command line option.  The STRING is either number of seconds since
 the Epoch or a "Time reference" (see below).
 
 command line option.  The STRING is either number of seconds since
 the Epoch or a "Time reference" (see below).