X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?p=chaz%2Ftar;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=aa6d4739e05cbbbbdd924b6ede9071054ce22ed9;hp=ceda138c7a026b4c2f549c7c8461a7d4faaa4338;hb=HEAD;hpb=f0a1f78196f75678424712ac36f0a4a46e3e5658 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ceda138..aa6d473 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,8 +1,37 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-01-21 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2015-08-03 Please send GNU tar bug reports to -version 1.27.90 (Git) +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 * New checkpoint action: totals @@ -11,15 +40,65 @@ total number of bytes transferred at each checkpoint. * Extended checkpoint format specification. -New conversion specifiers are implemented: - - %d - output number of seconds since tar started - %T - output I/O totals - %{FMT}t - output current local time using FMT as strftime(3) format - If {FMT} is omitted, use %c - %{N}* - pad output with spaces to the Nth column, or to the - current screen width, if {N} is not given. - +New conversion specifiers are implemented. Some of them take +optional arguments, supplied in curly braces between the percent +sign and the specifier letter. + + %d - Number of seconds since tar started. + %{r,w,d}T - I/O totals; optional arguments supply prefixes + to be used before number of bytes read, written and + deleted, correspondingly. + %{FMT}t - Current local time using FMT as strftime(3) format. + If {FMT} is omitted, use %c. + %{N}* - Pad output with spaces to the Nth column, or to the + current screen width, if {N} is not given. + %c - A shortcut for "%{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}t: %ds, %{read,wrote}T%*\r" + +* New option --one-top-level + +The option --one-top-level tells tar to extract all files into a +subdirectory named by the base name of the archive (minus standard +compression suffixes recognizable by --auto-compress). When used with +an argument, as in --one-top-level=DIR, the files are extracted into the +supplied DIRectory. This ensures that no archive members are +extracted outside of the specified directory, even if the archive is +crafted so as to put them elsewhere. + +* New option --sort + +The --sort=ORDER option instructs tar to sort directory entries +according to ORDER. It takes effect when creating archives. +Available ORDERs are: none (the default), name and inode. The +latter may be absent, if the underlying system does not provide +the necessary information. + +Using --sort=name ensures the member ordering in the created archive +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 have been providing so far. + version 1.27.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2013-11-17 @@ -319,7 +398,7 @@ Modification times in ustar header blocks of extended headers are set to mtimes of the corresponding archive members. This can be overridden by the - --pax-opion='exthdr.mtime=STRING' + --pax-option='exthdr.mtime=STRING' command line option. The STRING is either number of seconds since the Epoch or a "Time reference" (see below). @@ -329,7 +408,7 @@ headers are set to the time when tar was invoked. This can be overridden by the - --pax-opion='globexthdr.mtime=STRING' + --pax-option='globexthdr.mtime=STRING' command line option. The STRING is either number of seconds since the Epoch or a "Time reference" (see below). @@ -1455,7 +1534,7 @@ Versions 1.07 back to 1.00 by Jay Fenlason. -Copyright 1994-2001, 2003-2010, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright 1994-2001, 2003-2010, 2013-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU tar.