X-Git-Url: https://git.brokenzipper.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=2b8f300e24e1817084abf1de5418b43ba80ee32c;hb=65a7536d1fccd2890ec7d9e806cb5d1ad438282d;hp=2f6f491a6350cea187516db57856671e0b3e9b38;hpb=120e96c480fbfc5fa31fba0f59ba1a45953b838e;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2f6f491..2b8f300 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -18,10 +18,35 @@ as option name within the file list file. Now any file whose name starts with - is handled as option. To insert file names starting with dash, use --add-file option. +* List files containing null-separated file names are detected and processed +automatically. It is not necessary to give --null option. + * New option --no-unquote disables unquoting input file names. This is useful e.g. for processing output from `find dir -print0'. An orthogonal option --unquote is provided as well. +* New option --test-label tests the archive volume label. +If an argument is specified, the label is compared against its value. +Tar exits with code 0 if the two strings match, and with code 2 if +they do not. + +If no argument is given, --verbose option is implied. In this case, +tar prints the label name, if it is present and exits with code 0. + +* New option --show-stored-names. When creating archive in verbose mode, +lists member names as stored in the archive, i.e. with any eventual +prefixes removed. The option is useful, for example, while comparing +`tar cv' and `tar tv' outputs. + +* Better support for full-resolution time stamps. Tar cannot restore +time stamps to full nanosecond resolution, though, until the kernel +guys get their act together and give us a system call to set file time +stamps to nanosecond resolution. + +* The -v option now prints time stamps only to 1-minute resolution, +not full resolution, to avoid using up too many output columns. +Nanosecond resolution is now supported, but that would be too much. + * Bugfixes ** Allow non-option arguments to be interspersed with options.