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git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@52748 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

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diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-tlpdb b/Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-tlpdb
index a43baa6e08e..987cdadeb67 100755
--- a/Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-tlpdb
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-tlpdb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # $Id$
 # convert a set of tlpsrc files (given as arguments) into tlpdb
 # 
-# Copyright 2007-2018 Norbert Preining
+# Copyright 2007-2019 Norbert Preining
 # This file is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2
 # or any later version.
 
@@ -486,7 +486,14 @@ tlpsrc file to artificially increase its version number.
 
 =item B<--from-files>
 
-Use C<find> instead of C<svn -status> to create the list of files.
+=item B<--from-git>
+
+=item B<--from-gitsvn>
+
+Use C<find>, C<git>, and git-over-svn, respectively, instead of C<svn
+-status> to create the list of files. This amounts to calling the
+respective function in L<TeXLive::TLTree> to initialize the tree of
+files. By default, Subversion is used.
 
 =item B<--master> I<Master_dir>
 
@@ -516,7 +523,7 @@ tlpsrc directory.  With this option the commit step is skipped.
 
 By default, C<tl-update-tlpdb> checks that in the generated tlpdb the
 revision numbers of packages are not going backward compared to the
-previous version. This option disables this check.
+current tlpdb (see below). This option disables this check.
 
 =item B<--output=filename>
 
@@ -559,16 +566,21 @@ L<TeXLive::TLUtils> for details.
 C<tl-update-tlpdb> converts TeX Live source package files (tlpsrc) files
 into a TeX Live package database (tlpdb).
 
-In addition if at the same location there is already a TLPDB, it
+By default, it looks at Subversion output to determine the files in the
+current tree to place into the tlpdb. With the C<--from-files> option,
+it reads the filesystem with C<find>, and analogously for C<--from-git>
+and C<--from-gitsvn>.
+
+In addition, if at the same location there is already a tlpdb, it
 compares the revision number of packages and checks if a package is
-going back in time (i.e., having a smaller revision number in the new
-tlpdb).  This can happen when a file is removed and no other changes
-made.  In this case it commits a dummy change to the package's tlpsrc
-file to make sure that revisions are always increasing.
+going back in time (i.e., has a smaller revision number in the new
+tlpdb). This can happen when a file is removed and no other changes to
+the package made. In this case it commits a dummy change to the
+package's tlpsrc file to make sure that revisions are always increasing.
+The check is omitted if C<--no-reverse-revision-check> is specified.
 
 If a TeX Catalogue hierarchy is specified, additional information from
-the Catalogue is merged into the database (see L<TeXLive::TLPOBJ> for
-the specifics).
+the Catalogue is merged into the database (see L<TeXLive::TLPOBJ>).
 
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