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authorLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2012-10-03 15:54:24 +0300
committerLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2012-10-03 15:54:24 +0300
commit65536214a31ecd33b6b03b68a351fb597d3703d6 (patch)
tree311d449e7d09347836004142fbd5f9b08648b6a6
parentxz: Improve handling of failed realloc in xrealloc. (diff)
downloadxz-65536214a31ecd33b6b03b68a351fb597d3703d6.tar.xz
xz: Fix the note about --rsyncable on the man page.
-rw-r--r--src/xz/xz.117
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/src/xz/xz.1 b/src/xz/xz.1
index 4a30cd9d..156fd8fa 100644
--- a/src/xz/xz.1
+++ b/src/xz/xz.1
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" This file has been put into the public domain.
.\" You can do whatever you want with this file.
.\"
-.TH XZ 1 "2012-08-24" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils"
+.TH XZ 1 "2012-10-03" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils"
.
.SH NAME
xz, unxz, xzcat, lzma, unlzma, lzcat \- Compress or decompress .xz and .lzma files
@@ -2260,14 +2260,15 @@ The output can vary even between different
builds of the same XZ Utils version,
if different build options are used.
.PP
-The above means that implementing
+The above means that once
.B \-\-rsyncable
-to create rsyncable
-.B .xz
-files is not going to happen without
-freezing a part of the encoder
-implementation, which can then be used with
-.BR \-\-rsyncable .
+has been implemented,
+the resulting files won't necessarily be rsyncable
+unless both old and new files have been compressed
+with the same xz version.
+This problem can be fixed if a part of the encoder
+implementation is frozen to keep rsyncable output
+stable across xz versions.
.
.SS "Embedded .xz decompressors"
Embedded