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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2007-02-23 09:48:01 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2007-02-23 09:48:01 +0000
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downloadcurl-e37973913dcc9998ecb0da562a14fec18663062b.tar.gz
- Added warning outputs if the command line uses more than one of the options
-v, --trace and --trace-ascii, since it could really confuse the user. Clarified this fact in the man page.
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@@ -1033,6 +1033,9 @@ Enables a full trace dump of all incoming and outgoing data, including
descriptive information, to the given output file. Use "-" as filename to have
the output sent to stdout.
+This option overrides previous uses of \fI-v/--verbose\fP or
+\fI--trace-ascii\fP.
+
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "--trace-ascii <file>"
Enables a full trace dump of all incoming and outgoing data, including
@@ -1043,6 +1046,8 @@ This is very similar to \fI--trace\fP, but leaves out the hex part and only
shows the ASCII part of the dump. It makes smaller output that might be easier
to read for untrained humans.
+This option overrides previous uses of \fI-v/--verbose\fP or \fI--trace\fP.
+
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "--trace-time"
Prepends a time stamp to each trace or verbose line that curl displays.
@@ -1084,7 +1089,9 @@ might be option you're looking for.
If you think this option still doesn't give you enough details, consider using
\fI--trace\fP or \fI--trace-ascii\fP instead.
-If this option is used twice, the second will again disable verbose.
+This option overrides previous uses of \fI--trace-ascii\fP or \fI--trace\fP.
+
+If this option is used twice, the second will do nothing extra.
.IP "-V/--version"
Displays information about curl and the libcurl version it uses.