-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-02-10
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-11-07
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
extracted outside of the specified directory, even if the archive is
crafted so as to put them elsewhere.
+* New option --sort
+
+The --sort=ORDER option instructs tar to sort directory entries
+according to ORDER. It takes effect when creating archives.
+Available ORDERs are: none (the default), name and inode. The
+latter may be absent, if the underlying system does not provide
+the necessary information.
+
+Using --sort=name ensures the member ordering in the created archive
+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.
+
+* 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
-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
* Fix extracting sparse members from star archives.
-* The --one-top-level option.
-
-This new command line option tells tar that the working directory
-(or the one passed to -C) should not be populated with more than one
-name directly under it. Instead, a newly created subdirectory is
-used whose name is equal to the archive name without the extension.
-For example, foo.tar.gz would be extracted to foo.
-
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version 1.27 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2013-10-05
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).
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).