New option: --use-compatible-timestamps, which causes rdiff-backup to use - asthe hour/minute/second separator instead of :. Enabled by default on systems

which require : to be escaped. (Oliver Mulatz)


git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup/trunk@996 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1
index 780c4d7..648f573 100644
--- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1
+++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH RDIFF-BACKUP 1 "DECEMBER 2008" "Version 1.2.3" "User Manuals" \" -*- nroff -*-
+.TH RDIFF-BACKUP 1 "JANUARY 2009" "Version 1.3.0" "User Manuals" \" -*- nroff -*-
 .SH NAME
 rdiff-backup \- local/remote mirror and incremental backup
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -486,6 +486,13 @@ Test for the presence of a compatible rdiff-backup server as specified
 in the following host::filename argument(s).  The filename section
 will be ignored.
 .TP
+.B \-\-use-compatible-timestamps
+Create timestamps in which the hour/minute/second separator is a - (hyphen)
+instead of a : (colon). It is safe to use this option on one backup, and then
+not use it on another; rdiff-backup supports the intermingling of different
+timestamp formats. This option is enabled by default on platforms which
+require that the colon be escaped.
+.TP
 .BI "\-\-user-mapping-file " filename
 Map user names and ids according to the user mapping file
 .IR filename .