X-Git-Url: https://git.brokenzipper.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=fa018b7fdd05f57f51faddcac40840ec396b4631;hb=9766528b07318d3d7d35f504e9ded5a990c2ed24;hp=76f818376a659006a12091e354d430ff1aa56e6c;hpb=f984c43b822035eb6ba2dbb37ad84ebe91ca4bbb;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 76f8183..fa018b7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,16 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. Please send GNU tar bug reports to -version 1.15.91 - Sergey Poznyakoff, (CVS version) +version 1.15.92 - Sergey Poznyakoff, (CVS) + +* New option --mtime allows to set modification times for all archive +members during creation. + +* Bug fixes +** Avoid running off file descriptors when using multiple -C options. + + +version 1.15.91 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-06-16 * Incompatible changes @@ -65,17 +74,29 @@ will add 'prefix/' to all file names stored in foo.tar. versions it worked only with --extract. ** New option --show-transformed-names enables display of transformed file -or archive. In particular, when creating archive in verbose mode, -the option lists member names as stored in the archive. It -generalizes --show-stored-names option, introduced in 1.15.90. In -particular, when creating an archive in verbose mode, it lists member -names as stored in the archive, i.e., with any eventual prefixes +or archive. It generalizes --show-stored-names option, introduced in +1.15.90. In particular, when creating an archive in verbose mode, it lists +member names as stored in the archive, i.e., with any eventual prefixes removed and file name transformations applied. The option is useful, for example, while comparing `tar cv' and `tar tv' outputs. ** New incremental snapshot file format keeps information about file names as well as that about directories. +** The --checkpoint option takes an optional argument specifying the number +of records between the two successive checkpoints. Optional dot +starting the argument intructs tar to print dots instead of textual +checkpoints. + +** The --totals option can be used with any tar operation (previous versions +understood it only with --create). If an argument to this option is +given, it specifies the signal upon delivery of which the statistics +is to be printed. Both forms of this option (with and without +argument) can be given to in a single invocation of tar. + +* Bug fixes +** Detect attempts to update compressed archives. + version 1.15.90 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006-02-19