Eric Blake wrote: > A new release of tar, 1.15.91-1, is available, replacing 1.15.1-4 as the > current version. > > NEWS: > ===== > This is a new beta-quality upstream release.
> * Incompatible changes > ** Globbing > Previous versions of GNU tar assumed shell-style globbing when > extracting from or listing an archive. This behavior > was not documented and was incompatible with traditional tar > implementations. Therefore, starting from this version, GNU tar > no longer uses globbing by default. To treat member names as > globbing patterns, use --wildcards option. If you wish tar to > mimic the behavior of versions up to 1.15.90, add --wildcards to > the value of the environment variable TAR_OPTIONS. This is likely to break quite a few scripts using tar. Worth announcing prominently in its own right, not just as part of the changelog. > ** List files containing null-separated file names are detected > and processed automatically. It is no longer necessary to give > the --null option. Unfortunately, this detection code also outputs a 'warning' to stderr, which (AFAICS) cannot be suppressed by an options. Messy. (Noticed on Debian when this started showing up every time any .deb was built, but I imagine this might affect some scripts driving tar on Cygwin too.) Max.
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