From db9b81eb6b0fcb69b2f2819db6e301dd6492bef9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathan Stratton Treadway Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 09:28:52 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Tiny change * scripts/tar-snapshot-edit: Mention --show-snapshot-field-ranges option --- scripts/tar-snapshot-edit | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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; -- 2.43.0