X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=62844269fd7cafae43430a708b843aab472495a3;hb=c9a7297a8a135c0afd8f984b91578a822ba3b04c;hp=c1b4fa7bf1fbd28b410bfd3a6b627bd4ab7b4282;hpb=2a89f7a0a88535513eb0ed81cf7ee866b185ebf4;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c1b4fa7..6284426 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,8 +1,32 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2008-03-27 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2008-06-26 Please send GNU tar bug reports to -version 1.19.90 (CVS) +version 1.20.90 (CVS) + +* New short option -J + +A shortcut for --lzma. + +* New option --lzop + +* New option --no-auto-compress + +Cancels the effect of previous --auto-compress (-a) option. + +* Compressed format recognition + +If tar is unable to determine archive compression format, it falls +back to using archive suffix to determine it. + +* VCS support. + +Using --exclude-vcs handles also files used internally by Bazaar, +Mercurial and Darcs. + + + +version 1.20 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2008-04-14 * New option --auto-compress (-a) @@ -59,6 +83,10 @@ Names". The value of the blocking factor is made available to info and checkpoint scripts via environment variable TAR_BLOCKING_FACTOR. +* Incremental archives + +Improved (sped up) extracting from incremental archives. + * Bugfixes. ** Fix bug introduced in version 1.19: tar refused to update non-existing archives.