X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=deb3baf246ea6b85ac7de95b0a3329cd353dfeee;hb=01d61882973471f72122667e186331fdb6eee342;hp=e0473c78c71bc90f24522cd42316ec2ec67499f5;hpb=759c5208c540ae763ed48f1bdfec069df805bd0a;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e0473c7..deb3baf 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ changed while being read. Previous versions exited with code 2 (fatal error), and only if some files were truncated while being archived. * New option --mtime allows to set modification times for all archive -members during creation. +members during creation. * Bug fixes ** Avoid running off file descriptors when using multiple -C options. @@ -34,14 +34,14 @@ no longer uses globbing by default. For example, the above invocation is now interpreted as a request to extract from the archive the file named '*.c'. -To treat member names as globbing patterns, use --wildcards option. +To treat member names as globbing patterns, use --wildcards option. If you wish tar to mimic the behavior of versions up to 1.15.90, add --wildcards to the value of the environment variable TAR_OPTIONS. The exact way in which tar interprets member names is controlled by the following command line options: - --wildcards use wildcards + --wildcards use wildcards --anchored patterns match file name start --ignore-case ignore case --wildcards-match-slash wildcards match `/' @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ following command line options: Each of these options has a '--no-' counterpart that disables its effect (e.g. --no-wildcards). -These options affect both the interpretation of member names from +These options affect both the interpretation of member names from command line and that of the exclusion patterns (given with --exclude and --exclude-from options). The defaults are: @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ case-sensitive matching for the rest of command line, one could write: ** Short option -l is now an alias of --check-links option, which complies with UNIX98. This ends the transition period started with version 1.14. - + * New features ** New option --transform allows to transform file names before storing them @@ -80,19 +80,19 @@ will add 'prefix/' to all file names stored in foo.tar. versions it worked only with --extract. ** New option --show-transformed-names enables display of transformed file -or archive. It generalizes --show-stored-names option, introduced in -1.15.90. In particular, when creating an archive in verbose mode, it lists +or archive. It generalizes --show-stored-names option, introduced in +1.15.90. In particular, when creating an archive in verbose mode, it lists member names as stored in the archive, i.e., with any eventual prefixes removed and file name transformations applied. The option is useful, for example, while comparing `tar cv' and `tar tv' outputs. -** New incremental snapshot file format keeps information about file names +** New incremental snapshot file format keeps information about file names as well as that about directories. ** The --checkpoint option takes an optional argument specifying the number of records between the two successive checkpoints. Optional dot starting the argument intructs tar to print dots instead of textual -checkpoints. +checkpoints. ** The --totals option can be used with any tar operation (previous versions understood it only with --create). If an argument to this option is