-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2014-02-21
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2015-08-03
Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
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-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.
+
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+version 1.28, 2014-07-28
* New checkpoint action: totals
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 provided so far.
+home-made pages they have been providing so far.
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version 1.27.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2013-11-17
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).
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).
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-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.