-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-01-22
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-01-27
Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
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current screen width, if {N} is not given.
%c - a shortcut for "%{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}t: %ds, %{read,wrote}T%*\r"
+* 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.
+
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version 1.27.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2013-11-17
* Fix extracting sparse members from star archives.
+* The --one-top-level option.
+
+This new command line option tells tar that the working directory
+(or the one passed to -C) should not be populated with more than one
+name directly under it. Instead, a newly created subdirectory is
+used whose name is equal to the archive name without the extension.
+For example, foo.tar.gz would be extracted to foo.
+
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version 1.27 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2013-10-05