# Pastebin Y5i5zPW0
* The --keep-old-files and --skip-old-files options.

This release restores the traditional functionality of the
--keep-old-files.  This option causes tar to avoid replacing
existing files while extracting and to treat such files as errors.
Tar will emit a prominent error message upon encountering such files
and will exit with code 2 when finished extracting the archive.

A new option --skip-old-files is introduced, which acts exactly as
--keep-old-files, except that it does not treat existing files as
errors.  Instead it just silently skips them.  An additional level of
verbosity can be obtained by using the option --warning=existing-file
together with this option.