Fix bug in sparse file listing

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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-02-14
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-07-27
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
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-version 1.27.90 (Git)
+version 1.28, 2014-07-28
 
 * New checkpoint action: totals
 
@@ -48,11 +48,27 @@ is uniform and reproducible.  Using --sort=inode reduces the number
 of disk seeks made when creating the archive and thus can considerably
 speed up archivation.
 
+* New exclusion options
+
+  --exclude-ignore=FILE   Before dumping a directory check if it
+                          contains FILE, and if so read exclude
+                          patterns for this directory from FILE.
+  --exclude-ignore-recursive=FILE
+                          Same as above, but the exclusion patterns
+                          read from FILE remain in effect for any
+                         subdirectory, recursively.
+  --exclude-vcs-ignores   Read exclude tags from VCS ignore files,
+                          where such files exist.  Supported VCS's
+                          are: CVS, Git, Bazaar, Mercurial.
+                         
+
+* Tar refuses to read input from and write output to a tty device.
+
 * Manpages
 
 This release includes official tar(1) and rmt(8) manpages.
 Distribution maintainers are kindly asked to use these instead of the
-home-made pages they provided so far.
+home-made pages they have been providing so far.
   
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 version 1.27.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2013-11-17