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Paul Eggert
4eb9d052b2 Fix doc -c typo
https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-tar/2022-06/msg00006.html
* doc/tar.texi (Extended File Attributes): Fix typo.
2022-06-12 20:33:27 -07:00
Paul Eggert
c1027eb5ae Warn “file changed as we read it” less often
* src/create.c (dump_file0): Remove an fstatat call that is
unnecessary because the file wasn’t read so we can treat the first
fstatat as atomic.  Warn “file changed” when the file’s size,
mtime, user ID, group ID, or mode changes, instead of when the
file’s size or ctime changes.  Also, when such a change happens,
do not change exit status if --ignore-failed-read.  Finally, don’t
attempt to change atime back if it didn’t change.
2022-06-09 15:50:42 -07:00
Paul Eggert
de72aa0cd6 doc: fix abrupt sentence in HTML
Typo reported by Jackson Dougherty in:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-tar/2022-05/msg00000.html
* doc/tar.texi: Don’t assume that tex and info are the only two
formats.
2022-05-03 15:26:23 -07:00
Paul Eggert
eeda008a59 tar: revamp "file is the archive" diagnostic
* src/create.c (dump_file0): For clarity, change diagnostic
wording from "file is the archive; not dumped" to "archive cannot
contain itself; not dumped".  All test cases and documentation changed.
2022-02-15 17:42:51 -08:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
5c713540e3 Update copyright years 2022-01-02 10:25:29 +02:00
Paul Eggert
399c08b3bf Format ` and ' more nicely in doc
Use @documentencoding and set txicodequoteundirected and
txicodequotebacktick to get nicer-looking quoting in the manual.
2021-12-13 18:47:21 -08:00
Paul Eggert
7f8fe36040 Don’t recommend delete=mtime
That stops working after the year 2242.
2021-12-13 18:47:21 -08:00
Paul Eggert
b846956c60 More reproducible tarball doc
* doc/tar.texi (PAX keywords): Improve discussion of how
to generate reproducible tarballs.
2021-12-13 12:43:58 -08:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
c67d223854 Fix building the online version of the manual.
* doc/Makefile.am (GENDOCS): Use the version from the tar repository.
(manual): Set the DISTRIN rendition.
(manual-rebuild): New goal.
* doc/README.manual: New file. Instructions for maintainers on how to
update web documentation.
* doc/gendocs.sh: A version from gnulib fixed as per
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2021-03/msg00002.html.
* doc/gendocs_template: Updated version from gnulib.
* doc/intern.texi: Fix the use of UNREVISED.
* doc/tar.texi: Fix the use of GNUTAR.
2021-03-01 20:44:31 +02:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
afa743ac23 Update copyright years 2021-01-06 17:55:16 +02:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
1ff0b63f48 Accept only position-sensitive (file-selection) options in file list files.
Using such options as -f, -z, etc. is senseless in the file list file
and bypasses the option consistency checks in decode_options.  Therefore,
only options related to file selection (a.k.a position-sensitive options)
are allowed in files.

* doc/tar.texi: Document changes.
* src/common.h (tar_args): Move from tar.c
(TAR_ARGS_INITIALIZER): New macro.
* src/names.c: Declare option group identifiers as an enum.
(names_parse_opt): Special handling for ARGP_KEY_ERROR.
(names_argp): Remove static qualifier.
(names_argp_children): Remove.
* src/tar.c: Declare option group identifiers as an enum.
(parse_opt): Special handling for ARGP_KEY_INIT.
(argp_children): New static variable.
(args): Remove static variable.
(more_options): Allow only options from names_argp.
(parse_default_options): Take a pointer to struct tar_args as argument.
Replace the loc member during the call to argp_parse and restore it
afterwards.
(decode_options): Use automatic variable for args.
2020-06-24 16:43:26 +03:00
Alfred M. Szmidt
d9ec6f04e2 Remove freemanuals.texi
* doc/Makefile.am (tar_TEXINFOS): Remove freemanuals.texi.
* doc/freemanuals.texi: Delete file.
* doc/tar.texi (Free Software Needs Free Documentation): Remove
appendix.
2020-06-10 21:56:54 +03:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
b5418cd393 Fix typo in docs 2020-06-03 10:55:51 +03:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
8d90723d30 Update copyright years 2020-02-08 13:21:13 +02:00
Zachary Vance
ef0f882382 POSIX extended format headers do not include PID by default
The intent is to make binary-equivalent PAX archives easy to create.  If
POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, the POSIX standard default is used, which embeds
the pid.

* src/common.h (posixly_correct): New global.
* src/tar.c (decode_options): Detect the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment
variable.
* src/buffer.c (add_chunk_header): Change filenames of multipart files to
omit the pid.
* src/xheader.c (HEADER_TEMPLATE): New macro.
(xheader_xhdr_name, xheader_ghdr_name): Use HEADER_TEMPLATE to select
the template for the POSIX extended header name.
* doc/tar.texi: Document the change.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Vance <za3k@za3k.com>
2019-03-28 13:37:07 +02:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
97d8951536 Minor fixes in docs.
* doc/tar.1: Remove description of the --preserve option
Document verbosity levels.
* doc/tar.texi: Fix description of the -o option.
2019-02-04 21:30:00 +02:00
Daniel Le
bf5d66109c Fix typos in the documentation
Short option "t" was mistranslated to "--test" instead of "--list" in commit
67cad0792b.
2019-01-15 15:29:03 +02:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
2684c88a49 Version 1.31 2019-01-02 20:20:28 +02:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
e7cd377f78 Implement the "wait" checkpoint action.
This action instructs tar to pause until given signal is delivered.
The newer genfile tool uses this action for communication between
genfile and tar in exec mode. This eliminates race conitions and
speeds up the tests based on exec mode.

* doc/tar.texi: Document changes.
* paxutils: Upgrade.
* src/checkpoint.c: Implement the wait action.
* src/common.h (decode_signal): New proto.
* src/tar.c (decode_signal): New function.
(set_stat_signal): Rewrite.
* tests/dirrem01.at: Adjust genfile and tar command line arguments
to use the new feature.
* tests/dirrem02.at: Likewise.
* tests/filerem01.at: Likewise.
* tests/filerem02.at: Likewise.
* tests/grow.at: Likewise.
* tests/sptrcreat.at: Likewise.
* tests/sptrdiff00.at: Likewise.
* tests/sptrdiff01.at: Likewise.
* tests/truncate.at: Likewise.
2018-12-28 13:27:02 +02:00
Adam Borowski
3d45373d3b Add support for zstd compression
* configure.ac (zstd): Register compression program.
* doc/tar.1: Mention --zstd.
* doc/tar.texi: Document zstd support.
* src/buffer.c: Register zstd compression.
* src/suffix.c: Add suffixes zst and tzst.
* src/tar.c: New compression option --zstd.
2018-03-18 10:24:13 +02:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
7b8efcc7cb Fix typos in the docs 2018-03-13 22:20:53 +02:00
Paul Eggert
0c8e7bad3e Port to Texinfo 6.4
* doc/tar.texi (Sparse Recovery): Omit ‘.’ from anchor name,
as ‘makeinfo’ now complains about it.  All uses changed.
2017-11-18 08:42:23 -08:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
9855bc011e Update docs
* doc/Makefile.am: Add recipes.texi
* doc/recipes.texi: New file.
* doc/tar.texi: New appendix "Recipes"
2017-11-16 18:12:36 +02:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
ee0508f01c Minor improvements in the docs. 2017-11-16 14:31:53 +02:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
32e51de2af New option --warning=failed-read
* NEWS: Document the --warning=failed-read option.
* doc/tar.texi: Likewise.
* doc/tar.1: Likewise.
* src/common.h (WARN_FAILED_READ): New constant.
(WARNING_ENABLED): New macro.
* src/misc.c (close_diag, open_diag)
(read_diag_details, readlink_diag)
(savedir_diag, seek_diag_details)
(stat_diag): Suppress warnings if WARN_FAILED_READ is set.
* src/warning.c (failed-read): New keyword.
2017-11-16 14:22:48 +02:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
560f67c9f0 Fix docs
* doc/tar.texi: Fix description of the argument to --xattrs-exclude
and --xattrs-include option. It is a globbing pattern, not a regex.

Fix a typo (LZOP)
2017-11-16 12:24:45 +02:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
13edc746f6 Fix typo
* doc/tar.texi
2017-11-09 09:06:18 +02:00
Troels Thomsen
ede0d1b42d Fix typo 2017-06-29 14:23:15 +03:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
30fe67226a Update copyright years 2017-01-02 14:49:55 +02:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
2bfacfe3d0 Fix description of the "escape" quoting style 2016-11-12 12:49:10 +02:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
a2fd82f622 Minor documentation fix
* doc/tar.texi: Fix example about use of --no-recursion with -T
2016-11-12 11:46:43 +02:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
9a33077a7b Report positional options that were used but had no effect during archive creation
* src/names.c (file_selection_option)
(file_selection_option_name): New functions.
(unconsumed_option_push, unconsumed_option_free)
(unconsumed_option_report): New functions.
(name_list_advance): Maintain a list
of eventually unconsumed options during archive creation.
Report unconsumed options, if any.

* tests/positional01.at: New test case.
* tests/positional02.at: New test case.
* tests/positional03.at: New test case.
* tests/Makefile.am: Add new test cases.
* tests/testsuite.at: Likewise.

* NEWS: Document the changes.
* configure.ac: Version 1.29.90
* doc/tar.texi: Document the changes.
2016-05-27 11:50:19 +03:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
61cd3fd268 Fix argument handling when running external commands.
* src/system.c (xexec): Use sh -c to run the command.  This fixed
bug introduced by 7b5e80396 (tar 1.27)
* doc/tar.texi: Fix checkpoint examples: (1) $TAR_FILENAME
is not available when creating archive and (2) --checkpoint
can't be used as abbreviation of --checkpoint-action
2016-04-14 11:51:38 +03:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
195a25316c Remove --preserve option
* src/tar.c: Remove --preserve option
* NEWS: Update.
* doc/tar.texi: Update.
2016-03-24 08:39:52 +02:00
Jeremy Bobbio
13d04fe6ae New option --clamp-mtime
The new `--clamp-mtime` option will change the behavior of `--mtime` to only
use the time specified if the file mtime is newer than the given time.
The `--clamp-mtime` option can only be used together with `--mtime`.

Typical use case is to make builds reproducible: to loose less
information, it's better to keep the original date of an archive, except for
files modified during the build process. In that case, using a reference
(and thus reproducible) timestamps for the latter is good enough. See
<https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds> for more information.

Patch submitted by Jeremy Bobbio and
Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>

* doc/tar.1: Document --clamp-mtime
* doc/tar.texi: Likewise.

* src/common.h (set_mtime_option_mode): New enum
(set_mtime_option): Change type to enum set_mtime_option_mode.
(NEWER_OPTION_INITIALIZED): Rename to NEWER_OPTION_INITIALIZED.
* src/create.c (start_header): Set mtime depending on set_mtime_option.
* src/tar.c (options,parse_opt): New option --clamp-mtime
(decode_options): Initialize mtime_option

* tests/time02.at: New testcase.
* tests/Makefile.am: Add new testcase
* tests/testsuite.at: Likewise.
2016-03-24 07:26:27 +02:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
6ac0dd1d73 Revise docs 2016-03-18 14:27:27 +02:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
e4b246c14a Document xattrs, ACL and SELinux-related options.
* doc/tar.1: Document all options.
* doc/tar.texi: Likewise.
2016-03-16 20:08:00 +02:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
8980ecd62d Update copyright years 2016-01-20 11:29:17 +02:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
0f26331b17 fix a typo
* doc/tar.texi (Incremental Dumps): Add missing --file to the
'--list' example.
2015-12-11 15:21:04 +02:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
196fef9b40 Minor fixes.
* doc/tar.texi: Document position-sensitive options in a
separate subsection.
* src/names.c (names_argp,names_argp_children): Explicitly initialize
all members.
2015-12-11 14:19:44 +02:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
b684326e69 Use SEEK_HOLE for hole detection
Based on patch by Pavel Raiskup.

Use SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA feature of lseek on systems that support
it.  This can make archiving of sparse files much faster.

Implement the --hole-detection option to allow users to select
hole-detection method.

* src/common.h (hole_detection_method): New enum.
(hole_detection): New global.
* src/sparse.c  (sparse_scan_file_wholesparse): New function as a
method for detecting sparse files without any data.
(sparse_scan_file_raw): Rename from sparse_scan_file; with edits.
(sparse_scan_file_seek): New function.
(sparse_scan_file): Reimplement function.
* src/tar.c: New option --hole-detection

* tests/checkseekhole.c: New file.
* tests/.gitignore: Mention two test binaries.
* tests/Makefile.am: Add new tests.
* tests/testsuite.at (AT_SEEKHOLE_PREREQ): New macro.
Include sparse06.at.
* tests/sparse06.at: New test case.
* tests/sparse02.at: Force raw hole-detection method.
* tests/sparsemv.at: Likewise.
* tests/sparsemvp.at: Likewise.

* doc/tar.1: Document --hole-detection option.
* doc/tar.texi: Document hole-detection algorithms and
command-line options.
* NEWS: Document hole-detection.
2015-12-06 00:14:55 +02:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
1a615a41f5 New options: --owner-map and --group-map.
* NEWS: Update.
* doc/tar.1: Document --owner-map and --group-map
* doc/tar.texi: Likewise.

* src/map.c: New file.
* src/Makefile.am: Add map.c
* src/common.h (owner_map_read, owner_map_translate)
(group_map_read, group_map_translate): New protos.
* src/create.c (start_header): Use owner_map_translate
and group_map_translate to optionally translate user/group names/ids.
* src/tar.c: New options --owner-map and --group-map.

* tests/map.at: New file.
* tests/Makefile.am: Add map.at
* tests/testsuite.at: Include map.at.
2015-11-02 13:00:39 +02:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
429bd311b7 Add missing VCS files to --exclude-vcs list
* src/tar.c (vcs_file_table): Add .gitmodules and .gitattributes
* doc/tar.texi: Update.
2015-08-20 17:52:20 +03:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
eb621c67cf Options to control option handling in file lists.
The --verbatim-files-from option disables option handling in
file lists.  The --no-verbatim-files-from reverts its effect.

The --null option implies --verbatim-files-from.  This restores
the documented behavior, broken by 26538c9b.

* src/common.h (verbatim_files_from_option): New global.
* src/names.c (name_elt): New member: file.verbatim
(name_add_file): Take 'verbatim' state as its third parameter.
(read_next_name): Don't call handle_option if file.verbatim
is set.
* src/tar.c: New options --verbatim-files-from and
--no-verbatim-files-from.

* doc/tar.texi: Document --verbatim-files-from and
--no-verbatim-files-from options.
* NEWS: Update.
* configure.ac: Version 1.28.90

* tests/T-null2.at: New testcase.
* tests/Makefile.am: Update.
* tests/testsuite.at: Update.
2015-08-03 16:47:22 +03:00
Anders Jonsson
21f86195b7 Fix typos (preceeded etc.)
Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes
2015-07-25 08:47:25 -07:00
Paul Eggert
4eb1484dce tar: don't suggest GZIP
* doc/tar.texi (gzip): Don't suggest using the GZIP environment
variable, as it will be deprecated in the next gzip release.
2015-03-17 10:46:51 -07:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
e7b6f8e3ae Honor the pax-option overrides when creating archive.
Changes proposed by Denis Excoffier.

* NEWS: Fix typos.
* doc/tar.texi: Fix typos.  Improve recipe for creation of binary
equivalent archives.
* src/create.c (write_extended): Use the value of the
--mtime option (if specified) as the default for exthdr.mtime.
* src/xheader.c (xheader_store): Create the header if at least
one override is supplied in --pax-option.
2014-11-07 13:15:54 +02:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
0e0a852e91 Improve documentation.
* doc/tar.1: Document --skip-old-files and --warning=existing-file
* doc/tar.texi: Document --warning=existing-file
2014-08-16 09:42:25 +03:00
Benno Schulenberg
20ab569dc3 Fix a typo and some wordings in the documentation.
* doc/tar.texi: Fix some missing articles, and make it clearer
that "any" does not mean "anything" but "either of the two".
2014-07-22 03:37:41 +03:00
Sergey Poznyakoff
93906c238d Support exclusion patterns from various VCS ignore lists.
* src/Makefile.am (tar_SOURCES): Add exclist.c
* src/common.h (EXCL_DEFAULT, EXCL_RECURSIVE)
(EXCL_NON_RECURSIVE): New flags.
(excfile_add, info_attach_exclist)
(info_cleanup_exclist,info_free_exclist)
(exclude_vcs_ignores): New prototypes.
* src/create.c (dump_dir0): Call info_attach_exclist.
* src/exclist.c: New file.
* src/incremen.c (scan_directory): Call info_attach_exclist.
* src/names.c (excluded_name): Moved to exclist.c. Change signature.
All uses updated.
* src/tar.c: New options: --exclude-ignore, --exclude-ignore-recursive
and --exclude-vcs-ignores.
(tar_stat_destroy): Free exclist.
* src/tar.h (tar_stat_info): New member exclude_list.

* NEWS: Document new exclusion options.
* doc/tar.texi: Likewise.
* doc/tar.1: Likewise.
2014-02-22 08:13:30 +02:00