* The default output format can be selected at configuration time
by presetting the environment variable DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_FORMAT.
Allowed values are GNU, V7, OLDGNU and POSIX.
+* New option --strip-path allows to cut off a given number of
+path elements from the name of the file being extracted.
* Bug fixes.
It would be useful to be able to use '--remove-files' with '--diff',
to remove all files that compare successfully, when verifying a backup.
-* Add an option to cut away the first N output path elements:
+* Add tests for testing the added functonality.
- From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:55:31 +0200
-
- some archives have members like
- foo/bar
- foo/baz
- foo/bam
-
- When I now want to extract the three members bar, baz and bam to the
- directory fom instead foo, I need to extract to foo and then to move
- the files over manually.
-
- patch(1) solves that problem by offering an option taking the number
- of path elements to cut away before using the path name. With an
- option like that, the above problem could be solved with
-
- tar --extract --cut-path-elements 1 --directory fom
+* Revise the --sparse option functionality.
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