Implement --no-null option.

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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2008-04-14
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2008-09-24
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
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+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.
+
+* New option --no-null
+
+Cancels the effect of previous --null 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.
+
+* Bugfixes
+
+** The --null option disabled handling of tar options in list files.  This
+is fixed.
+
+\f
+
 version 1.20 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2008-04-14
 
 * New option --auto-compress (-a)
@@ -59,6 +92,10 @@ Names".
 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.