X-Git-Url: https://git.brokenzipper.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=911592dc13074a8aedd55ad2a28394bac52fc2fb;hb=005d0d455c49f83afe1c0ce2ad9ceaddbc582175;hp=59f5e74ba2607723da54eb0bfc20f3de33ae51c1;hpb=fabcc30f69d51990a5666b5c6cc3e5cfd613a328;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 59f5e74..911592d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -8,6 +8,20 @@ Please send GNU tar bug reports to version 1.15.2 (CVS version -- unreleased) +* New features + +* Any number of -T (--files-from) options may be used in command line. +The file specified with -T may include any valid `tar' options, +including another -T option. +Compatibility note: older versions of tar would only recognize -C +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. + +* 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. + * Bugfixes ** Allow non-option arguments to be interspersed with options. @@ -20,7 +34,7 @@ was not processed correctly. version 1.15.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-21 -This version fixes a bug introduced in 1.15 which caused +This version fixes a bug introduced in 1.15 which caused tar to refuse to extract files from standard input. @@ -55,7 +69,7 @@ the file names had their prefixes stripped off. automatically on archive creation. Cache directories are those containing a standardized tag file, as specified at: - http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/spec.html + http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/spec.html * New configure option --with-rmt allows to specify full path name to the `rmt' utility. This supercedes DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND variable @@ -79,12 +93,12 @@ lead to removing the already extracted copy. Preserve the first extracted copy in such cases. ** Restore script was passing improper argument to tar --listed option (which didn't affect the functionality, but was logically incorrect). -** Fixed verification of created archives. +** Fixed verification of created archives. ** Fixed unquoting of file names containing backslash escapes (previous versions failed to recognize \a and \v). ** When attempting to delete a non-existing member from the archive, previous versions of tar used to overwrite last archive block with zeroes. - + version 1.14 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-05-11 @@ -112,7 +126,7 @@ version 1.14 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-05-11 with previous releases, however such usage is strongly deprecated as the option will change to its UNIX98 semantics in the future releases. -* New option --occurrence[=N] can be used in conjunction with one of +* New option --occurrence[=N] can be used in conjunction with one of the subcommands --delete, --diff, --extract or --list when a list of files is given either on the command line or via -T option. This option instructs tar to process only the Nth occurrence of each named @@ -143,8 +157,8 @@ DEFAULT_RMT_COMMAND=/etc/rmt. Notice also that the full path name of the "rmt" utility to use can be set at runtime, by giving option --rmt-command to -tar. - +tar. + * Removed obsolete command line options: ** --absolute-paths superseded by --absolute-names ** --block-compress is not needed any longer @@ -157,7 +171,7 @@ tar. * New message translations fi (Finnish), gl (Galician), hr (Croatian), hu (Hungarian), ms (Malaysian), nb (Norwegian), ro (Romanian), sk (Slovak), zh_CN (Chinese simplified), zh_TW (Chinese traditional). - The code 'no' for Norwegian (Bokmål) has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead. + The code 'no' for Norwegian (BokmÃ¥l) has been withdrawn; use 'nb' instead. * Bug fixes. @@ -215,7 +229,7 @@ version 1.13.20 - Paul Eggert, 2001-08-27 The translation for Korean has been withdrawn due to encoding errors. It will be reissued once those are fixed. - + version 1.13.19 - Paul Eggert, 2001-01-13 * The -I option has been withdrawn, as it was buggy and confusing. @@ -224,7 +238,7 @@ version 1.13.19 - Paul Eggert, 2001-01-13 * With an option like -N DATE, if DATE starts with "/" or ".", it is taken to be a file name; the last-modified time of that file is used as the date. - + version 1.13.18 - Paul Eggert, 2000-10-29 * Some security problems have been fixed. `tar -x' now modifies only @@ -252,7 +266,7 @@ version 1.13.18 - Paul Eggert, 2000-10-29 * This version of tar works best with GNU gzip test version 1.3 or later. Please see . - + * `tar --delete -f -' now works again. @@ -305,13 +319,13 @@ version 1.13.16 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-13. * tar now ignores socket files when creating an archive. Previously tar archived sockets as fifos, which caused problems. - + version 1.13.15 - Paul Eggert, 1999-12-03. * If a file's ctime changes when being archived, report an error. Previously tar looked at mtime, which missed some errors. - + version 1.13.14 - Paul Eggert, 1999-11-07. * New translations ja, pt_BR.