X-Git-Url: https://git.brokenzipper.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=NEWS;h=e4b6987e2719e4cda808a9d7d4f7be642645d375;hb=3fb5d67b281ee7ff7214ac14d35f02ae11c8a9f5;hp=8c57082e1f769c076e43bc096ed8572ed1a865da;hpb=57304e8b0a0f1c3aa9e34cc1397a40cf5f8b0d7f;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8c57082..e4b6987 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,51 @@ -GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-06-08 +GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2007-10-10 Please send GNU tar bug reports to + + +version 1.19 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-10-10 + +* New option --exclude-vcs + +Excludes directories and files, created by several widely used version +control systems, e.g. "CVS/", ".svn/", etc. + +* --exclude-tag and --exclude-cache options + +The following options now work with incremental archives as well: + + --exclude-caches + --exclude-caches-all + --exclude-tag + --exclude-tag-all + --exclude-tag-under + +* Fix handling of renamed files in listed incremental archives. + +Previous versions always stored absolute file names in rename +records, even if -P was not used. This is fixed: rename records +contain file names processed in accordance with the command line +settings. + +* Fix --version output. + +* Recognition of broken archives. + +When supplied an archive smaller than 512 bytes in reading mode (-x, +-t), the previous version of tar silently ignored it, exiting with +code 0. It is fixed. Tar now issues the following diagnostic message: +'This does not look like a tar archive', and exits with code 2. + +* Fix double-dot recognition in archive member names in case of duplicate '/.'. + +* Fix file padding in case of truncation of the input file to zero size. + + +version 1.18 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-06-29 + +* Licensed under the GPLv3 + +* Fixed several bugs in the testsuite + version 1.17 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007-06-08 @@ -892,7 +938,7 @@ This file is part of GNU tar. GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by -the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) +the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version. GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,