From: Nathan Stratton Treadway <nathanst@ontko.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 06:28:52 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Tiny change
X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?p=chaz%2Ftar;a=commitdiff_plain;h=db9b81eb6b0fcb69b2f2819db6e301dd6492bef9

Tiny change

* scripts/tar-snapshot-edit: Mention --show-snapshot-field-ranges option
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diff --git a/scripts/tar-snapshot-edit b/scripts/tar-snapshot-edit
index 56c24a1..bf15331 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;