What's new in MarkEmptyDirs 1.7
Oct 9, 2010
- Implemented issue 6: Added new '--purge' command line option which deletes everything within directories containing placeholders -- except the placeholder files themselves.
- Help text now is formatted dynamically according to the console's windows size.
New in MarkEmptyDirs 1.7 (Oct 9, 2010)
- Implemented issue 6: Added new '--purge' command line option which deletes everything within directories containing placeholders -- except the placeholder files themselves.
- Help text now is formatted dynamically according to the console's windows size.
New in MarkEmptyDirs 1.6.1 (Feb 16, 2010)
- Fixed: Another problem with symlinks.
- Minor performance optimization.
New in MarkEmptyDirs 1.6 (Feb 8, 2010)
- Added new option '--follow-symlinks' which allows to make MarkEmptyDirs follow symbolic links to directories or not.
- (Currently, symbolic links are only supported on unixoide file systems.)
- Fixed: Directory trees with symlinks are not processed properly.
- Fixed an issue with case-insensitive filesystems and placeholder filenames.
New in MarkEmptyDirs 1.5 (Feb 8, 2010)
- Added new 'placeholder' variable which evaluates to the placeholder's file name/path.
- Added new 'dir' variable which evaluates to the directory specified on command line, or to the current directory of the placeholder file.
- Added new 'separator' variable which evaluates to the operating system specific directory, path, or volume separator character.
- Added two new options '--create-hook' and '--delete-hook' which can be used to hook in command line scripts to be executed as soon as a placeholder file is created or deleted.
- Improved performance.
- Improved error handling.
- Added more unit tests for quality assurance.
- Removed '--dry' alias for '--dry-run' option (for simplicity).
- Improved help message output.
- Bugfix: The set of default excluded directories now contains 'CVS' instead of '.cvs'.
New in MarkEmptyDirs 1.4 (Feb 8, 2010)
- A new command line option was added that allows you to switch variable substitution within placeholder files on or off.
- Placeholder files now are created with the system's default encoding (instead of ASCII encoding).
- Several unit tests were added for quality assurance.
- Some minor improvements regarding error handling were added.
New in MarkEmptyDirs 1.3 (Feb 8, 2010)
- This release adds a feature that allows you to specify a template file for placeholders.
- It adds a feature that allows you to create placeholders with GUIDs, datetime, environment variables, and more.
- It has improved readability of help messages for template variables.
- Some bugfixes.