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authorNathan Stratton Treadway <nathanst@ontko.com>2013-10-05 09:28:52 +0300
committerSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>2013-10-05 09:28:52 +0300
commitdb9b81eb6b0fcb69b2f2819db6e301dd6492bef9 (patch)
tree603136ce1a78a7f759816e1f999ead12c4848a11
parentf3c8bc7c3fbcf95a2df198b9b4ff75a897b26c64 (diff)
downloadtar-db9b81eb6b0fcb69b2f2819db6e301dd6492bef9.tar.gz
Tiny change
* scripts/tar-snapshot-edit: Mention --show-snapshot-field-ranges option
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/tar-snapshot-edit4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/tar-snapshot-edit b/scripts/tar-snapshot-edit
index 56c24a1a..bf153311 100755
--- a/scripts/tar-snapshot-edit
+++ b/scripts/tar-snapshot-edit
@@ -260,7 +260,9 @@ sub show_device_counts ($) {
# in the incremen.c source file, where the TYPE_MIN and TYPE_MAX
# pre-processor expressions are used to determine the range that can be
# expressed by the C data type used for each field; the values in the
-# array defined below should match those calculations.
+# array defined below should match those calculations. (For tar v1.27
+# and later, the valid ranges for a particular tar binary can easily
+# be determined using the "tar --show-snapshot-field-ranges" command.)
sub choose_architecture ($) {
my $opt_a = shift;