Merge commit 'upstream/1.4'

[debian/gzip] / gzip.1

diff --git a/gzip.1 b/gzip.1
index 784d8283e9765203bb51c08a15671ce0032de3ba..d8fe0b99e81015ab92a9b5d6cd82c03aa18dce44 100644 (file)
--- a/gzip.1
+++ b/gzip.1
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ legal.
 .PP
 .I gunzip
 takes a list of files on its command line and replaces each
-file whose name ends with .gz, -gz, .z, -z, _z or .Z
+file whose name ends with .gz, -gz, .z, -z, or _z (ignoring case)
 and which begins with the correct magic number with an uncompressed
 file without the original extension.
 .I gunzip
@@ -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