New option --sort=ORDER

[chaz/tar] / doc / tar.texi

diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi
index 48c22a36dc6eb0e2bb213528e239934c6316ef70..9bb5a833c8c4c0d09d6f8012c13c44ab52dfc1d4 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/tar.texi
+++ b/doc/tar.texi
@@ -3319,6 +3319,27 @@ The @option{--warning=existing-file} option can be used together with
 this option to produce warning messages about existing old files
 (@pxref{warnings}).
 
+@opsummary{sort}
+@item --sort=@var{order}
+Specify the directory sorting order when reading directories.
+@var{Order} may be one of the following:
+
+@table @samp
+@item none
+No directory sorting is performed. This is the default.
+
+@item name
+Sort the directory entries on name. The operating system may deliver
+directory entries in a more or less random order, and sorting them
+makes archive creation reproducible.
+
+@item inode
+Sort the directory entries on inode number. Sorting directories on
+inode number may reduce the amount of disk seek operations when
+creating an archive for some file systems.
+
+@end table
+
 @opsummary{sparse}
 @item --sparse
 @itemx -S
@@ -3627,7 +3648,7 @@ successfully.  For example, @w{@samp{tar --version}} might print:
 
 @smallexample
 tar (GNU tar) @value{VERSION}
-Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2013-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
@@ -4030,7 +4051,7 @@ Pad output with spaces to the @var{n}th column.  If the
 @samp{@{@var{n}@}} part is omitted, the current screen width
 is assumed.
 
-@item %@var{c}
+@item %c
 This is a shortcut for @samp{%@{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S@}t: %ds, %@{read,wrote@}T%*\r},
 intended mainly for use with @samp{ttyout} action (see below).
 @end table