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| author | Allen Byrne <byrn@hdfgroup.org> | 2020-08-14 17:16:58 (GMT) |
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| committer | Allen Byrne <byrn@hdfgroup.org> | 2020-08-14 17:16:58 (GMT) |
| commit | 500d87fd1f5d6068feeb71119bc5d22843203fef (patch) | |
| tree | d98efc114fc684fd835aa31168457e72c833af99 /release_docs | |
| parent | 044ee6f88c78a70eb3694d8c73fa74c77fde9689 (diff) | |
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HDFFV-9984 Add options to merge/prune external links during repack
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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 9cb9d53..45dee05 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -699,6 +699,17 @@ 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) + - h5repack was fixed to repack the reference attributes properly. The code line that checks if the update of reference inside a compound datatype is misplaced outside the code block loop that carries out the |