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Sergey Poznyakoff
2015-12-06 21:20:48 +02:00
parent 68e9ab4966
commit 5dd490e7f1

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@@ -16,12 +16,20 @@ it is treated as tar command line option.
Use the --verbatim-files-from option to disable this special handling.
This facilitates the use of tar with file lists created automatically
(e.g. by file(1) command).
(e.g. by find(1) command).
This option affects all --files-from options that occur after it in
the command line. Its effect is reverted by the
--no-verbatim-files-from option.
* --null option reads file names verbatim
The --null option implies --verbatim-files-from. I.e. each line
read from null-delimited file lists is treated as a file name.
This restores the documented behavior, which was broken in version
1.27.
* New options: --owner-map=FILE and --group-map=FILE
These two options provide fine-grained control over what user/group
@@ -40,14 +48,6 @@ NEWID is supplied, NEWNAME must also be either a valid name or a
+ID. Otherwise, both NEWNAME and NEWID need not be listed in the
system user database.
* --null option reads file names verbatim
The --null option implies --verbatim-files-from. I.e. each line
read from null-delimited file lists is treated as a file name.
This restores the documented behavior, which was broken in version
1.27.
* Sparse file detection
Tar now uses SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE on systems that support it. This