From c793a6edb441fdad568c26dc417e98484c74f897 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 14:01:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify TruncateLogFile manpage entry

---
 doc/tor.1.txt | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt
index 193f943e2b..ca6ac7b997 100644
--- a/doc/tor.1.txt
+++ b/doc/tor.1.txt
@@ -562,7 +562,8 @@ GENERAL OPTIONS
     syslog messages, or the mtime fields on log files.  (Default: 1 second)
 
 [[TruncateLogFile]] **TruncateLogFile** **0**|**1**::
-    If 1, Tor will overwrite logs, instead of appending them. (Default: 0)
+    If 1, Tor will overwrite logs at startup and in response to a HUP signal,
+    instead of appending to them. (Default: 0)
 
 [[SafeLogging]] **SafeLogging** **0**|**1**|**relay**::
     Tor can scrub potentially sensitive strings from log messages (e.g.