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-version 1.15.91 - Sergey Poznyakoff, (CVS version)
+version 1.16 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-10-21
+
+* After creating an archive, tar exits with code 1 if some files were
+changed while being read. Previous versions exited with code 2 (fatal
+error), and only if some files were truncated while being archived.
+
+* New option --mtime allows to set modification times for all archive
+members during creation.
+
+* Bug fixes
+** Avoid running off file descriptors when using multiple -C options.
+** tar --index-file=FILE --file=- sent the archive to FILE, and
+the listing to stderr.
+
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+version 1.15.91 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-06-16
* Incompatible changes
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'.
+To treat member names as globbing patterns, use --wildcards option.
+If you wish tar to mimic the behavior of versions up to 1.15.90,
+add --wildcards to the value of the environment variable TAR_OPTIONS.
-The exact way tar interprets member names is controlled by the
+The exact way in which tar interprets member names is controlled by the
following command line options:
- --wildcards use wildcards
+ --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
+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:
** 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 incremental snapshot file format keeps information about file names
+** New option --transform allows to transform file names before storing them
+in the archive or member names before extracting. The option takes a
+sed replace expression as its argument. For example,
+
+ tar cf foo.tar --transform 's,^,prefix/,'
+
+will add 'prefix/' to all file names stored in foo.tar.
+
+** --strip-components option works when deleting and comparing. In previous
+versions it worked only with --extract.
+
+** New option --show-transformed-names enables display of transformed file
+or archive. It generalizes --show-stored-names option, introduced in
+1.15.90. In particular, when creating an archive in verbose mode, it lists
+member names as stored in the archive, i.e., with any eventual prefixes
+removed and file name transformations applied. The option is useful,
+for example, while comparing `tar cv' and `tar tv' outputs.
+
+** New incremental snapshot file format keeps information about file names
as well as that about directories.
+** The --checkpoint option takes an optional argument specifying the number
+of records between the two successive checkpoints. Optional dot
+starting the argument intructs tar to print dots instead of textual
+checkpoints.
+
+** The --totals option can be used with any tar operation (previous versions
+understood it only with --create). If an argument to this option is
+given, it specifies the signal upon delivery of which the statistics
+is to be printed. Both forms of this option (with and without
+argument) can be given to in a single invocation of tar.
+
+* Bug fixes
+** Detect attempts to update compressed archives.
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version 1.15.90 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-02-19
projects / chaz / tar / blobdiff