X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=4dba114020cb77dfd6e38f147ae556781b997e78;hb=1bcbbcf1ff2c537ffa970dbf82e3843d4ad110e5;hp=5324a4d98adf2d24f20c63fb3b3d1a4041c8b2fd;hpb=c10830a35ba2e0e86dc10c5ab9bbaf163d4c0b3a;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5324a4d..4dba114 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,37 +1,61 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2009-03-04 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2009-08-05 Please send GNU tar bug reports to -version 1.21.90 (CVS) +version 1.22.90 (Git) + +* Record size autodetection + +When listing or extracting archives, the actual record size is +reported only if the archive is read from a device (as opposed +to regular files and pipes). + +* New command line option `--warning' + +The `--warning' command line option allows to suppress or enable +particular warning messages during `tar' run. It takes a single +argument (a `keyword'), identifying the class of warning messages +to affect. If the argument is prefixed with `no-', such warning +messages are suppressed. For example, + + tar --warning=no-alone-zero-block -x -f archive + +suppresses the output of `A lone zero block' diagnostics, which is +normally issued if `archive' ends with a single block of zeros. + +* Bugfixes +** Fix handling of hard link targets by -c --transform. +** Fix hard links recognition with -c --remove-files. +** Fix restoring files from backup (debian bug #508199). +** Correctly restore modes and permissions on existing directories. + + +version 1.22 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2009-03-05 * Support for xz compression -Tar uses xz for compression if at least one of the following -conditions is met: +Tar uses xz for compression if one of the following conditions is met: 1. The option --xz or -J (see below) is used. 2. The xz binary is set as compressor using --use-compress-program option. 3. The file name of the archive being created ends in `.xz' and auto-compress option (-a) is used. -Xz is used for decompression if at least one of the following -conditions is met: +Xz is used for decompression if one of the following conditions is met: 1. The option --xz or -J is used. 2. The xz binary is set as compressor using --use-compress-program option. 3. The file is recognized as xz compressed stream data. -* Short option -J - -The decision to assign -J option was taken just before the XZ format -has been officially declared stable. Now, that stable xz tools are -available, the -J option is re-assigned as a short equivalent of --xz. +* Short option -J reassigned as a short equivalent of --xz * New option -I The -I option is assigned as a short equivalent for --use-compress-program. +* The --no-recursive option works in incremental mode. + version 1.21 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2008-12-27