X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=09b598126ed2ccf0da6fda4beff559580a0633f2;hb=2de140fa9535e86297abb743fd81a420b638005d;hp=c1a1892be282ea6a3b2094fc523c17cd5b604db8;hpb=d3f04456e86b4cce1f863afdc05885f97514412a;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c1a1892..09b5981 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,37 +1,81 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-06-08 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-09-29 Please send GNU tar bug reports to + + +version 1.18.90 (CVS) + +* New option --exclude-vcs + +Excludes directories and files, internal to some widely used version +control systems, e.g. "CVS/", ".svn/", etc. + +* --exclude-tag and --exclude-cache options + +The following options now work with incremental archives as well: + + --exclude-caches + --exclude-caches-all + --exclude-tag + --exclude-tag-all + --exclude-tag-under + +* Fix handling of renamed files in listed incremental archives. + +Previous versions always stored absolute file names in rename +records, even if -P was not used. This is fixed: rename records +contain file names processed in accordance with the command line +settings. + +* Fix --version output. + +* Recognition of broken archives. + +When supplied an archive smaller than 512 bytes in reading mode (-x, +-t), the previous version of tar silently ignored it, exiting with +code 0. It is fixed. Tar now issues the following diagnostic message: +'This does not look like a tar archive', and exits with code 2. + +* Fix double-dot recognition in archive member names in case of duplicate '/.'. + + +version 1.18 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-06-29 + +* Licensed under the GPLv3 + +* Fixed several bugs in the testsuite + version 1.17 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-06-08 * Fix archivation of sparse files in posix mode. Previous versions padded sparse members with spurious zero blocks. - + * Fix operation of --verify --listed-incremental. Version 1.16.1 produced a full dump when both options were given. -* Fix --occurence. In previous versions it continued scanning the archive +* Fix --occurrence. In previous versions it continued scanning the archive even though all requested members has already been extracted. * Scope of --transform and --strip-components options. In addition to affecting regular archive members, the --transform option affects hard and soft link targets and the --strip-components -option affects hard link targets as well. +option affects hard link targets as well. * End-of-volume script can send the new volume name to tar by writing it to the file descriptor stored in the environment variable `TAR_FD'. - + version 1.16.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-12-09 -* New option --exclude-tag allows to specify "exclusion tag files", i.e. - files whose presence in a directory means that the directory should not +* New option --exclude-tag allows to specify "exclusion tag files", i.e. + files whose presence in a directory means that the directory should not be archived. * The --exclude-cache option excludes directories that contain the CACHEDIR.TAG file from being archived. Previous versions excluded directory contents only, while the directories themselves were - still added to the archive. + still added to the archive. * Support for reading ustar type 'N' header logical records has been removed. This GNU extension was generated only by very old versions of GNU 'tar'. @@ -45,7 +89,7 @@ version 1.16.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-12-09 files extracted by 'tar -x --same-owner' (or plain 'tar -x', when running as root) to be accessed by users that they shouldn't have been. - + version 1.16 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-10-21 * After creating an archive, tar exits with code 1 if some files were @@ -892,7 +936,7 @@ This file is part of GNU tar. GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by -the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) +the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version. GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,