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diff --git a/node_modules/tar-fs/README.md b/node_modules/tar-fs/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index c6d35cf..0000000 --- a/node_modules/tar-fs/README.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,165 +0,0 @@ -# tar-fs - -filesystem bindings for [tar-stream](https://github.com/mafintosh/tar-stream). - -``` -npm install tar-fs -``` - -[](http://travis-ci.org/mafintosh/tar-fs) - -## Usage - -tar-fs allows you to pack directories into tarballs and extract tarballs into directories. - -It doesn't gunzip for you, so if you want to extract a `.tar.gz` with this you'll need to use something like [gunzip-maybe](https://github.com/mafintosh/gunzip-maybe) in addition to this. - -``` js -var tar = require('tar-fs') -var fs = require('fs') - -// packing a directory -tar.pack('./my-directory').pipe(fs.createWriteStream('my-tarball.tar')) - -// extracting a directory -fs.createReadStream('my-other-tarball.tar').pipe(tar.extract('./my-other-directory')) -``` - -To ignore various files when packing or extracting add a ignore function to the options. `ignore` -is also an alias for `filter`. Additionally you get `header` if you use ignore while extracting. -That way you could also filter by metadata. - -``` js -var pack = tar.pack('./my-directory', { - ignore: function(name) { - return path.extname(name) === '.bin' // ignore .bin files when packing - } -}) - -var extract = tar.extract('./my-other-directory', { - ignore: function(name) { - return path.extname(name) === '.bin' // ignore .bin files inside the tarball when extracing - } -}) - -var extractFilesDirs = tar.extract('./my-other-other-directory', { - ignore: function(_, header) { - // pass files & directories, ignore e.g. symlinks - return header.type !== 'file' && header.type !== 'directory' - } -}) -``` - -You can also specify which entries to pack using the `entries` option - -```js -var pack = tar.pack('./my-directory', { - entries: ['file1', 'subdir/file2'] // only the specific entries will be packed -}) -``` - -If you want to modify the headers when packing/extracting add a map function to the options - -``` js -var pack = tar.pack('./my-directory', { - map: function(header) { - header.name = 'prefixed/'+header.name - return header - } -}) - -var extract = tar.extract('./my-directory', { - map: function(header) { - header.name = 'another-prefix/'+header.name - return header - } -}) -``` - -Similarly you can use `mapStream` incase you wanna modify the input/output file streams - -``` js -var pack = tar.pack('./my-directory', { - mapStream: function(fileStream, header) { - // NOTE: the returned stream HAS to have the same length as the input stream. - // If not make sure to update the size in the header passed in here. - if (path.extname(header.name) === '.js') { - return fileStream.pipe(someTransform) - } - return fileStream; - } -}) - -var extract = tar.extract('./my-directory', { - mapStream: function(fileStream, header) { - if (path.extname(header.name) === '.js') { - return fileStream.pipe(someTransform) - } - return fileStream; - } -}) -``` - -Set `options.fmode` and `options.dmode` to ensure that files/directories extracted have the corresponding modes - -``` js -var extract = tar.extract('./my-directory', { - dmode: parseInt(555, 8), // all dirs should be readable - fmode: parseInt(444, 8) // all files should be readable -}) -``` - -It can be useful to use `dmode` and `fmode` if you are packing/unpacking tarballs between *nix/windows to ensure that all files/directories unpacked are readable. - -Alternatively you can set `options.readable` and/or `options.writable` to set the dmode and fmode to readable/writable. - -``` js -var extract = tar.extract('./my-directory', { - readable: true, // all dirs and files should be readable - writable: true, // all dirs and files should be writable -}) -``` - -Set `options.strict` to `false` if you want to ignore errors due to unsupported entry types (like device files) - -To dereference symlinks (pack the contents of the symlink instead of the link itself) set `options.dereference` to `true`. - -## Copy a directory - -Copying a directory with permissions and mtime intact is as simple as - -``` js -tar.pack('source-directory').pipe(tar.extract('dest-directory')) -``` - -## Interaction with [`tar-stream`](https://github.com/mafintosh/tar-stream) - -Use `finalize: false` and the `finish` hook to -leave the pack stream open for further entries (see -[`tar-stream#pack`](https://github.com/mafintosh/tar-stream#packing)), -and use `pack` to pass an existing pack stream. - -``` js -var mypack = tar.pack('./my-directory', { - finalize: false, - finish: function(sameAsMypack) { - mypack.entry({name: 'generated-file.txt'}, "hello") - tar.pack('./other-directory', { - pack: sameAsMypack - }) - } -}) -``` - - -## Performance - -Packing and extracting a 6.1 GB with 2496 directories and 2398 files yields the following results on my Macbook Air. -[See the benchmark here](https://gist.github.com/mafintosh/8102201) - -* tar-fs: 34.261 seconds -* [node-tar](https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar): 366.123 seconds (or 10x slower) - -## License - -MIT |