X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=36926e87af7950fef3475ede16c21a522da6cc05;hb=b68057816b2f880a8bd2e9747a9b75d60f7e1a4f;hp=a7217930937d3bfecde3b3beef86864d18492ded;hpb=6dd7e857e505c890374c3e4a05f49e1efe555228;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a721793..36926e8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -14,6 +14,18 @@ version 1.13.26 * Bug fixes. +* The semantics of -o option is changed. When extracting, it +does the same as --no-same-owner GNU tar option. This is compatible +with UNIX98 tar. Otherwise, its effect is the same as that of +--old-archive option. This latter is deprecated and will be removed +in future. + +* New option --check-links prints a message if not all links are dumped +for a file being archived. This corresponds to the UNIX98 -l option. +The current semantics of the -l option is retained for compatibility +with previous releases, however such usage is strongly deprecated as +the option will change to its UNIX98 semantics in the future releases. + version 1.13.25 - Paul Eggert, 2001-09-26 * Bug fixes.