X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=308da9b7ad25f22e7bc0e5c1dcc3a09e3d5ff970;hb=1a1f2d33d5f782d7720b463f48c1449688e2a0a5;hp=0faf95d9f094b5b19886642dd7506e7e8d02f911;hpb=13be4005e744428d989d5d156de48bc0fe579f68;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0faf95d..308da9b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU tar bug reports to -version 1.13.26 +version 1.13.90 * Added support for POSIX.1-2001 archive format. * New option --format allows to select the output archive format @@ -34,20 +34,22 @@ version 1.13.26 with previous releases, however such usage is strongly deprecated as the option will change to its UNIX98 semantics in the future releases. -* New option --first-copy can be used in conjunction with one of +* New option --occurrence[=N] can be used in conjunction with one of the subcommands --delete, --diff, --extract or --list when a list of files is given either on the command line or via -T option. This - option instructs tar to terminate when all of the filenames from - the list were processed. + option instructs tar to process only the Nth occurrence of each named + file. N defaults to 1, so `tar -x -f archive --occurrence filename' + extracts the first occurrence of `filename' from `archive' + and terminates without scanning to the end of the archive. * Removed obsolete command line options: -** --absolute-paths superseeded by --absolute-names +** --absolute-paths superseded by --absolute-names ** --block-compress is not needed any longer -** --block-size superseeded by --blocking--factor -** --modification-time superseeded by --touch -** --read-full-blocks supeseeded by --read-full-records -** --record-number superseeded by --block-number -** --version-control superseeded by --backup +** --block-size superseded by --blocking-factor +** --modification-time superseded by --touch +** --read-full-blocks superseded by --read-full-records +** --record-number superseded by --block-number +** --version-control superseded by --backup * New message translations fi (Finnish), gl (Galician), hr (Croatian), hu (Hungarian), ms (Malaysian), nb (Norwegian), ro (Romanian), sk @@ -168,7 +170,7 @@ version 1.13.16 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-13. To enable the old behavior, use the -P or --absolute-names option. * Tar now handles file names with multibyte encodings (e.g. UTF-8, Shift-JIS) - correctly. It relies on the mbrtowc function to handle multibytes. + correctly. It relies on the mbrtowc function to handle multibyte characters. * The file generated by -g or --listed-incremental now uses a format that is independent of locale, so that users need not worry about