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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-03-10
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Please send GNU tar bug reports to <[email protected]>
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-version 1.22.91 (Git)
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+version 1.23 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010-03-10
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* Record size autodetection
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@@ -43,38 +43,38 @@ the snapshot file if it exists.
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If a file or directory is removed while incremental dump is
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in progress, tar exact actions depend on whether this file
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-was explicitly listed in the command line, or was gathered
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+was explicitly listed in the command line, or was found
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during file system scan.
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If the file was explicitly listed in the command line, tar
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issues error message and exits with the code 2, meaning
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fatal error.
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-Otherwise, if the file was gathered during the file system
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-scan, tar issues a warning, saying "File removed before we read it",
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-and sets the exit code to 1, which means "some files differ".
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+Otherwise, if the file was found during the file system scan,
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+tar issues a warning, saying "File removed before we read it",
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+and sets exit code to 1, which means "some files differ".
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If the --warning=no-file-removed option is given, no warning
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-is issued and the exit code remains 0.
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+is issued and exit code remains 0.
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* Modification times of PAX extended headers.
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-Modification times in the ustar header blocks for the
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-extended headers are set to the mtimes of the corresponding archive
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-members. This can be overridden by the
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+Modification times in ustar header blocks of extended headers
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+are set to mtimes of the corresponding archive members. This
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+can be overridden by the
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--pax-opion='exthdr.mtime=STRING'
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-command line option. The STRING is either the number of seconds since
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+command line option. The STRING is either number of seconds since
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the Epoch or a `Time reference' (see below).
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-Modification times in the ustar header blocks for the global
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-extended headers are set to the time when tar was invoked.
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+Modification times in ustar header blocks of global extended
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+headers are set to the time when tar was invoked.
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This can be overridden by the
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--pax-opion='globexthdr.mtime=STRING'
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-command line option. The STRING is either the number of seconds since
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+command line option. The STRING is either number of seconds since
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the Epoch or a `Time reference' (see below).
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* Time references in --pax-option argument.
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@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ of curly braces represents a time reference. The string between the
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braces is understood either as a textual time representation, as described in
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chapter 7, "Date input formats", of the Tar manual, or as a name of
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an existing file, starting with `/' or `.'. In the latter
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-case, the value is replaced with the modification time of that file.
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+case, it is replaced with the modification time of that file.
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* Environment of --to-command script.
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@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ the following variables:
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** Fix hard links recognition with -c --remove-files.
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** Fix restoring files from backup (debian bug #508199).
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** Correctly restore modes and permissions on existing directories.
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-** The --remove-files option removes the files only if they were
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+** The --remove-files option removes files only if they were
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succesfully stored in the archive.
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** Fix storing and listing of the volume labels in POSIX format.
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** Improve algorithm for splitting long file names (ustar
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