document TLBACKUP json format

git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@45727 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/doc/JSON-formats.txt b/Master/tlpkg/doc/JSON-formats.txt
index 890a2310330..9f0edd0762e 100644
--- a/Master/tlpkg/doc/JSON-formats.txt
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/doc/JSON-formats.txt
@@ -111,6 +111,25 @@ Example:
   }
 }
 
+TLBACKUP
+--------
+This format is used when dumping available backups via the
+tlmgr restore action.
+JSON array of JSON objects, one per available backup.
+Each backup has keys: name, rev, date (all strings).
+Example:
+[
+   {
+      "date" : "2017-10-30 11:04",
+      "name" : "uplatex",
+      "rev" : "45414"
+   },
+   {
+      "date" : "2017-09-28 10:50",
+      "name" : "uplatex",
+      "rev" : "45141"
+   }
+]
 
 TODO
   UPDATE JSON format