X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=7e57e17ddbb0ebaf29708e2739dbc37bdfddfe40;hb=7c7da5f79f2ed32694437fd5b2a83b670f7e9185;hp=e3ba39d239d0e91d6b74320098c237a63d7c7878;hpb=8286de0946c52da691d16611c3fdb85676ff3547;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e3ba39d..7e57e17 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -7,9 +7,41 @@ Please send GNU tar bug reports to version 1.14.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, -* Renamed --strip-path to --strip-components for consistency with - the GNU convention. +* When restoring incremental dumps, --one-file-system option +prevents directory hierarchies residing on different devices +from being purged. + +With the previous versions of tar it was dangerous to create +incremental dumps with --one-file-system option, since they +would recursively remove mount points when restoring from the +back up. This change fixes the bug. +* Renamed --strip-path to --strip-components for consistency with +the GNU convention. + +* Skipping archive members is sped up. + +* restore script starts restoring only if it is given --all (-a) option, +or some patterns. This is to prevent accidental restores. + +* `tar --verify' prints a warning if during archive creation some of +the file names had their prefixes stripped off. + +* Bugfixes: +** Fixed flow in recognizing files to be included in incremental dumps. +** Correctly recognize sparse archive members when used with -T option +** GNU multivolume headers cannot store filenames longer than 100 characters. +Do not allow multivolume archives to begin with such filenames. +** If a member with link count > 2 was stored in the archive twice, +previous versions of tar were not able to extract it, since they +were trying to link the file to itself, which always failed and +lead to removing the already extracted copy. Preserve the first +extracted copy in such cases. +** restore script was passing improper argument to tar --listed option. +** Fixed verification of the created archives. +** Fixed unquoting of the file names containing backslash escapes (previous +versions failed to recognize \a and \v). + version 1.14 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-05-11