X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=c9ba52cbff642d7f94afb607569d4360264ac1e7;hb=64ba4757bc5a2d52652f57d7f6764dbc7ef0a5e3;hp=59f5e74ba2607723da54eb0bfc20f3de33ae51c1;hpb=fabcc30f69d51990a5666b5c6cc3e5cfd613a328;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 59f5e74..c9ba52c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -8,6 +8,20 @@ Please send GNU tar bug reports to version 1.15.2 (CVS version -- unreleased) +* New features + +* Any number of -T (--files-from) options may be used in command line. +The file specified with -T may include any valid `tar' options, +including another -T option. +Compatibility note: older versions of tar would only recognize -C +as option name within the file list file. Now any file whose name +starts with - is handled as option. To insert file names starting with +dash, use --add-file option. + +* New option --no-unquote disables unquoting input file names. This +is useful e.g. for processing output from `find dir -print0'. +An orthogonal option --unquote is provided as well. + * Bugfixes ** Allow non-option arguments to be interspersed with options.