From: Pádraig Brady
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:56:14 +0000 (+0100) Subject: maint: reorganize latest NEWS X-Git-Tag: v8.6~109 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4332538dbb97f0db3daa877ca19db0fc24f3b835;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git maint: reorganize latest NEWS * NEWS: Add another blank line before the previous version. (Bug fixes): Move to the start. (Changes in behavior): Add the item about the du mem usage change from the "New features" section. --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6ed23fb002..124ca5ab39 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?] +** Bug fixes + + du no longer multiply counts a file that is a directory or whose + link count is 1, even if the file is reached multiple times by + following symlinks or via multiple arguments. + ** New features cp now accepts the --attributes-only option to not copy file data, @@ -10,15 +16,15 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- du recognizes -d N as equivalent to --max-depth=N, for compatibility with FreeBSD. - du now uses less than half as much memory when operating on trees - with many hard-linked files. With --count-links (-l), or when - operating on trees with no hard-linked files, there is no change. - sort now accepts the --debug option, to highlight the part of the line significant in the sort, and warn about questionable options. ** Changes in behavior + du now uses less than half as much memory when operating on trees + with many hard-linked files. With --count-links (-l), or when + operating on trees with no hard-linked files, there is no change. + ls -l now uses the traditional three field time style rather than the wider two field numeric ISO style, in locales where a style has not been specified. The new approach has nicer behavior in some @@ -47,11 +53,6 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- Also errors are no longer suppressed for unsupported file types, and relative sizes are restricted to supported file types. -** Bug fixes - - du no longer multiply counts a file that is a directory or whose - link count is 1, even if the file is reached multiple times by - following symlinks or via multiple arguments. * Noteworthy changes in release 8.5 (2010-04-23) [stable]