* NEWS, configure.ac: Version 1.20.91

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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2008-10-22
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2008-10-30
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
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-version 1.20.90 (CVS)
+version 1.20.91 (CVS)
 
 * New short option -J
 
@@ -28,21 +28,40 @@ back to using archive suffix to determine it.
 Using --exclude-vcs handles also files used internally by Bazaar,
 Mercurial and Darcs.
 
-* The --transform-symlink option.
+* Transformation scope flags
 
-The effect of the --transform option on the symbolic links targets is
-controlled by --transform-symlink and --no-transform-symlink options.
-By default, transformations do not apply to symlink targets,
-which corresponds to the behavior of version 1.19.  To apply
-transformations to symlink targets as well, use --transform-symlink
-option.  The --no-transform-symlink option cancels the effect of any
-prior --transform-symlink.
+Name transformation expressions understand additional flags that
+control type of archive members affected by them.  The flags are:
+
+ - r
+   Apply transformation to regular archive members.
+
+ - s
+   Apply transformation to symbolic link targets.
+
+ - h  
+   Apply transformation to hard link targets.
+
+Corresponding upper-case letters negate the flag meaning, so that
+`H' means ``do not apply transformation to hard link targets.''
+
+The scope flags are listed in the third part of an `s' expression,
+e.g.:
+
+   tar --transform 's|^|/usr/local/|S'
+
+Default is `rsh', which means that transformations are applied to
+both regular archive members and to the targets of symbolic and hard
+links.  If several transform expressions are used, the default flags
+can be changed using `flags=' statement before the expressions, e.g.:
+
+   tar --transform 'flags=S;s|^|/usr/local/|S'
 
 * Bugfixes
 
 ** The --null option disabled handling of tar options in list files.  This
 is fixed.
-** Fixed record size autodetection.  If the detected record size differs from
+** Fixed record size autodetection.  If detected record size differs from
 the expected value (either default, or set on the command line), tar
 always prints a warning if verbosity level is set to 1 or greater,
 i.e. if either -t or -v option is given.