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authorPrzemyslaw Pawelczyk <przemoc@gmail.com>2015-09-08 01:08:32 +0200
committerPrzemyslaw Pawelczyk <przemoc@gmail.com>2015-09-08 01:08:32 +0200
commit7c7eabdfc213636fa1f5a7fe7e457b20a8d7defd (patch)
tree9c829f026f6665f7fcf41663ba86c677ccebd427 /metastore.1
parentdbf59f5a730cdacd84d7dcf4416baec7f7546787 (diff)
Add action to dump metadata in human-readable form: -d / --dump.
metastore depends now on libbsd, because of strmode() function. This commit fixes issue #28.
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diff --git a/metastore.1 b/metastore.1
index d6c561e..7651b91 100644
--- a/metastore.1
+++ b/metastore.1
@@ -26,6 +26,15 @@ Saves the current metadata to ./.metadata or to the specified file
.B \-a, \-\-apply
Attempts to apply the stored metadata to the file system.
.TP
+.B \-d, \-\-dump
+Dumps stored (if no \fIPATH\fR is given) or real metadata (if \fIPATH\fR is
+present, e.g. \fB./\fR) in human-readable form.
+
+This action is meant only as a helpful debugging facility or merge conflict
+helper. Do not ever compare its output generated using different metastore
+version. Do not rely on current output format (especially in batch scripts),
+because it may change in future without prior notice.
+.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Prints a help message and exits.
.\"