From 87063014799dc78af45710ba5f40cd5dfe341a53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergey Poznyakoff Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:23:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update docs. * NEWS: Document --one-top-level * THANKS: Mention Connor Behan --- NEWS | 12 +++++++++++- THANKS | 1 + 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 50e5f4e..481ea27 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-01-27 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-02-10 Please send GNU tar bug reports to @@ -25,6 +25,16 @@ sign and the specifier letter. 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. + * Manpages This release includes official tar(1) and rmt(8) manpages. diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS index a734fb6..471a786 100644 --- a/THANKS +++ b/THANKS @@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ Claude Scarpelli claude@genethon.fr Claus Heine Claus_Heine@ac2.maus.de Cliff Krumvieda cliff@cs.cornell.edu Clinton Carr clint@netcom.com +Connor Behan connor.behan@gmail.com Conrad Hughes chughes@maths.tcd.ie Constantin Belous const@cris.net Coranth Gryphon gryphon@bur.visidyne.com -- 2.43.0