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| author | Allen Byrne <byrn@hdfgroup.org> | 2020-08-15 19:14:50 (GMT) |
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| committer | Allen Byrne <byrn@hdfgroup.org> | 2020-08-15 19:14:50 (GMT) |
| commit | 59316d1327380e619f7a7e4d215d55e88f8c1c74 (patch) | |
| tree | 066066b97503dd384913e4927b1c626fe6a0bc74 /release_docs | |
| parent | 8e7c24f5148e91335bf744583a6a407014014391 (diff) | |
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HDFFV-9984 Add merge/prune h5repack options for ext links
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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 04501b1..78dfdd5 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -315,7 +315,16 @@ New Features Tools: ------ - - + - h5repack added options to control how external links are handled. + + Currently h5repack preserves external links and cannot copy and merge + data from the external files. Two options, merge and prune, were added to + control how to merge data from an external link into the resulting file. + --merge Follow external soft link recursively and merge data. + --prune Do not follow external soft links and remove link. + --merge --prune Follow external link, merge data and remove dangling link. + + (ADB - 2020/08/05, HDFFV-9984) High-Level APIs: --------------- |