* src/common.h (transform_symlinks_option): New global.

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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2008-03-27
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2008-10-16
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
 \f
-version 1.19.90 (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.
+
+* 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.
+
+* The --transform-symlink option.
+
+The effect of the --transform option on the symbolic links targets is
+controlled by --transform-symlink and --no-transform-symlink options.
+By default, transformations do not apply to symlink targets,
+which corresponds to the behavior of version 1.19.  To apply
+transformations to symlink targets as well, use --transform-symlink
+option.  The --no-transform-symlink option cancels the effect of any
+prior --transform-symlink.
+
+* 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 +102,10 @@ 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.