Imported Debian patch 1.3.5-13

[gzip] / gzip.1

diff --git a/gzip.1 b/gzip.1
index f5d03ff3ef59b6fa5ba6aa952f8d61d28509c3ab..8960b877012b9716f2a47f8cf6aec7ea647345a6 100644 (file)
--- a/gzip.1
+++ b/gzip.1
@@ -290,6 +290,15 @@ will descend into the directory and compress all the files it finds there
 .I gunzip
 ).
 .TP
+.B --rsyncable
+While compressing, synchronize the output occasionally based on the input.
+This increases size by less than 1 percent most cases, but means that the
+.BR rsync (1)
+program can much more efficiently synchronize files compressed with this flag.
+.I gunzip
+cannot tell the difference between a compressed file created with this option,
+and one created without it.
+.TP
 .B \-S .suf   --suffix .suf
 Use suffix .suf instead of .gz. Any suffix can be given, but suffixes
 other than .z and .gz should be avoided to avoid confusion when files