X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=32bc881da09040acd8d9eacca246204bfa03c4dd;hb=586a6263e9d97494139b4285c81ee5907c9d7252;hp=ea3a27d22b81abe4e572168fcb719b2851f56a84;hpb=288dd472e33a7a10578f2f68572301d5e58e12d3;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ea3a27d..32bc881 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-02-10 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-07-27 Please send GNU tar bug reports to -version 1.27.90 (Git) +version 1.28, 2014-07-28 * New checkpoint action: totals @@ -35,11 +35,40 @@ supplied DIRectory. This ensures that no archive members are 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. version 1.27.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2013-11-17 @@ -52,14 +81,6 @@ 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. - version 1.27 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2013-10-05