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authorGravatar David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>2012-01-03 23:19:05 -0400
committerGravatar David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>2012-01-05 17:52:50 -0400
commit9981f995c6a4122f1adf4bac5febf31e3c147d26 (patch)
tree00bb9f75e52e72f17805faa92a057a6de4f56f58 /NEWS
parent84d9e319ad916a600d44e09e38b0ace406a22007 (diff)
NEWS: give a hint about using sort to achieve the old dump behavior.
This is needed for a few applications, and actually is quite fast (relative to the actual dump).
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@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ Automatic tag query optimization
Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
- information.
+ information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
+ example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
Memory Management
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