X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=NEWS;h=c9ba52cbff642d7f94afb607569d4360264ac1e7;hb=0037ae7f9e2cdf0fc0ab2d4197f236064dae3d2f;hp=f927c7bdb85b00f3ea75ec283429cb661189d56a;hpb=aa600ee769ea656d7888177e2d7f71497ff40d2d;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f927c7b..c9ba52c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,11 +1,44 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. -Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004 +Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, +2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU tar bug reports to -version 1.14.91 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-14 +version 1.15.2 (CVS version -- unreleased) + +* New features + +* Any number of -T (--files-from) options may be used in command line. +The file specified with -T may include any valid `tar' options, +including another -T option. +Compatibility note: older versions of tar would only recognize -C +as option name within the file list file. Now any file whose name +starts with - is handled as option. To insert file names starting with +dash, use --add-file option. + +* New option --no-unquote disables unquoting input file names. This +is useful e.g. for processing output from `find dir -print0'. +An orthogonal option --unquote is provided as well. + +* Bugfixes + +** Allow non-option arguments to be interspersed with options. +** When extracting or listing archives in old GNU format, tar +used to read an extra block of data after a long name header +if length of the member name was divisible by block size (512). +Consequently, the file pointer was set off and the next member +was not processed correctly. + + +version 1.15.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-21 + +This version fixes a bug introduced in 1.15 which caused +tar to refuse to extract files from standard input. + + +version 1.15 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-20 * Compressed archives are recognised automatically, it is no longer necessary to specify -Z, -z, or -j options to read them. Thus, you can