X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?p=chaz%2Ftar;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;fp=NEWS;h=aa6d4739e05cbbbbdd924b6ede9071054ce22ed9;hp=c3385f8b6ce6e3864f250cde9efaac9ce4f4050a;hb=eb621c67cfdff818ac86fa2e54602fc82daf6032;hpb=21f86195b7c48196e7912bbb2755e56af5ea62ff diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c3385f8..aa6d473 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,35 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-11-07 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2015-08-03 Please send GNU tar bug reports to + +version 1.28.90 (Git) + +* New options: --verbatim-files-from, --no-verbatim-files-from + +The --verbatim-files-from option instructs tar to treat each line read +from a file list as a file name, even if it starts with a dash. + +File lists are supplied with the --files-from (-T) option. By +default, each line read from a file list is first stripped off the +leading and trailing whitespace and, if the result begins with a dash, +it is treated as tar command line option. + +Use the --verbatim-files-from option to disable this special handling. +This facilitates the use of tar with file lists created automatically +(e.g. by file(1) command). + +This option affects all --files-from options that occur after it in +the command line. Its effect is reverted by the +--no-verbatim-files-from option. + +* --null option reads file names verbatim + +The --null option implies --verbatim-files-from. I.e. each line +read from null-delimited file lists is treated as a file name. + +This restores the documented behavior, which was broken in version +1.27. + version 1.28, 2014-07-28 @@ -1505,7 +1534,7 @@ Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason. -Copyright 1994-2001, 2003-2010, 2013-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright 1994-2001, 2003-2010, 2013-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU tar.