aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--changes/document_version2
-rw-r--r--doc/tor.1.txt3
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/changes/document_version b/changes/document_version
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a45992b6b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/document_version
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+ o Documentation:
+ - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt
index 8c419b1a63..4ecc4ee382 100644
--- a/doc/tor.1.txt
+++ b/doc/tor.1.txt
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS
future version. (This is a warning, not a promise.)
[[opt-version]] **--version**::
- Display Tor version and exit.
+ Display Tor version and exit. The output is a line of the format,
+ "Tor version [version number]."
[[opt-quiet]] **--quiet**|**--hush**::
Override the default console log. By default, Tor starts out logging